- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 15:24:25 +0100
- To: Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>
- Cc: Ben Adida <ben@mit.edu>, 'public-rdf-in-xhtml task force'' <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>
On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 14:45 +0200, Steven Pemberton wrote: > >> The advantages of this approach: > >> > >> The markup is simpler > > > > ...by hiding structure in attribute content conventions, sure. > > I disagree. There is no hiding going on: it is an explicit notation, and > the metadata really *is* 'about' the bnode. No. The metadata really is 'about' the thing the bnode stands for in the world, eg. a person, or a place. Bnodes are engineering artifacts, parts of an abstract structure related to RDF serialization. They have importantly different properties to the things they stand for, eg. two bnodes can represent the same real world thing. For sanity sake, RDF people tend to avoid writing RDF descriptions about bnodes, although it could be done. (sorry to be nitpicky on this, but such seemingly academic distinctions made RDF pretty confusing pre-rdfcore days... eg. talk of 'anonymous resources', as if lacking a uri was a property of people, places... rather than of their descriptions). > >> Less explaining to do > > > > I'm not so sure on that point. Particularly if you include the > > confusion > > it'll create around the other "about" attribute, ie. the one in RDF/XML > > which > > doesn't behave like this. > > I think it is easier to say "if you don't know what you are referring to, > you can give it a name as a placeholder" rather than having to explain > that there are two new attributes that replace 'about' and 'href' in > certain cases. "you can give it a name, indicating that it is a placeholder by using the foo and bar attributes". Whichever way we go, I'm sure we'll need more detailed documentation than can fit in the xhtml 2 spec itself... > >> We only have to argue about one name instead of two :-) > > > > Yup. I think naming these attributes is worth some thought. Hmm... > > > ps. congrats on shipping a new WD :) > > Thanks... Already 300 new issues come in to the database. Wohoo. Hopefully some duplicates... Dan
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