Re: cross-referencing constraints in conceptual model and formal model

I think there might be something in ReSpec already - there's a feature for 
linking to external definitions, but I don't know the details.

Something like <a class="externalDFN">

#g
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On 25/08/2011 15:08, James Cheney wrote:
> I don't think so.  What I would like to be able to do is write something like
>
> <my_provenance_constraint number="nnnn">
> Blah blah blah
> </my_provenance_constraint>
>
> and have this get expanded to:
>
> <div class='constraint'>
> <a name="PIDM:nnnn">
> blah blah blah blah
> </a>  [<a href="<url-of-ProvenanceFormalModel.html>#PIDM:nnnn">PIL:nnnn</a>]
> </div>
>
> thus, avoiding having to explicitly write and maintain the multiple copies of the xref numbers.
>
> I think the easiest way to do this is to hack on the ReSpec javascript to do this transformation to the DOM along with whatever else it does, but cleaner/better solutions are welcome.
>
> Luc also suggested that it would be nice to have the constraint number or a more memorable name appear in the "Inference"/"Constraint" box generated by css.  I don' tthink there's an easy way to do this, but one could instead do`:
>
> <my_provenance_constraint number="nnnn" title="foo">
> Blah blah blah
> </my_provenance_constraint>
>
> <div class='constraint'>
> <h4>  [<a href="<url-of-ProvenanceFormalModel.html>#PIDM:nnnn">PIL:nnnn</a>] Foo</h4>
> <a name="PIDM:nnnn">
> blah blah blah blah
> </a>
> </div>
>
> --James
>
> On Aug 25, 2011, at 1:34 PM, Graham Klyne wrote:
>
>> I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to achieve, but does title on<a>  elements help?
>>
>> e.g.
>> [[
>> <A href="http://someplace.com/neatstuff.gif" title="Me scuba diving">
>>    me scuba diving last summer
>> </A>
>> ]]
>> from http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#idx-title-2
>>
>> #g
>> --
>>
>> On 22/08/2011 13:46, James Cheney wrote:
>>>
>>> On Aug 22, 2011, at 1:38 PM, Luc Moreau wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi James,
>>>>
>>>> I like it, I wanted to do it (in fact started doing it, with the class inference, as you have seen).
>>>
>>> I see.  Do you want to just use "inference" for everything?  I added "constraint" since there were some things that seem like interesting constraints that aren't necessarily inferences.  But it would probably be best to just have one such annotation.
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> It would be nice to be able to labelled each of these, with a human readable label, e.g.
>>>>    process execution insertion rule.
>>>
>>>> Is there an html/css guru who can help with this?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I don't know how one can do this short of just writing extra HTML; I think CSS is not able to define macros in this way.  I'd also like to macro-ize things so that the ids are automatically generated, and don't appear in multiple places, etc.  Right now it is fragile.
>>>
>>> I know it could be done with XSLT but suspect this would not interact well with the ReSpec tool.
>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Luc
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 08/18/2011 04:10 PM, James Cheney wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am missing the first 30-40 minutes of the teleconference (supervising an exam), but might be able to join later.
>>>>>
>>>>> I had an action item to add cross-references between the conceptual model and formal model.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have added<a name="PIL:XXXX">   tags and cross-reference links to:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/prov/raw-file/default/model/ProvenanceModel.html
>>>>>
>>>>> and
>>>>>
>>>>> http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/prov/raw-file/default/ontology/ProvenanceFormalModel.html
>>>>>
>>>>> I haven't tagged all of the things that seem like they should be tagged (my list of constraints is a week or two out of date).
>>>>>
>>>>> Basically, the idea is that wherever we have a formal-sounding constraint or inference in the conceptual model, we should have links to/from the corresponding part of the formal model (or semantics, if there are constraints we can't or don't want to specify using OWL).
>>>>>
>>>>> Right now these are maintained by hand, which could be painful over time.  We may want to add some automation to make it easier to keep these consistent.
>>>>>
>>>>> If there is time I would appreciate if people could have a look at what I did and indicate whether it seems reasonable (or if there is a known better way to do this kind of thing).
>>>>>
>>>>> If this looks OK, then going forward we should be careful to keep these consistent.
>>>>>
>>>>> --James
>>>>>
>>>>> The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
>>>>> Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Professor Luc Moreau
>>>> Electronics and Computer Science   tel:   +44 23 8059 4487
>>>> University of Southampton          fax:   +44 23 8059 2865
>>>> Southampton SO17 1BJ               email: l.moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk
>>>> United Kingdom                     http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~lavm
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
>>> Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
>>
>>
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>

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