- From: Steven Pemberton <Steven.Pemberton@cwi.nl>
- Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 13:33:13 +0200
- To: "Dan Brickley" <danbri@w3.org>, "Ben Adida" <ben@mit.edu>
- Cc: "'public-rdf-in-xhtml task force''" <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>
On Mon, 30 May 2005 19:40:55 +0200, Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org> wrote: > I talked with Steven about this last week, urging that the only > workable solution was choosing 2 attribute names. Not clear what the best > names are, though. Since that discussion, I talked with Mark, and he argued that the fake URL solutions are still workable (I expect he'll mail about it today as well). The argument goes: suppose we adopt an XPointer solution, called, say, #some() <link about="#some(a)" rel="foaf:mbox" href="dan@example.com" /> <link about="#some(b)" rel="foaf:mbox" href="libby@example.net" /> <link about="#some(a)" rel="foaf:knows" href="#some(b)" /> These *look* like URIs (and have to in order to be able to use the same attributes), but all they really are is a message to the RDF serialiser to transform them into RDF bnodes. Although they are URLs in the HTML world, when they get into the RDF world, they are not any more, they are bnodes. The advantages of this approach: The markup is simpler Less explaining to do We only have to argue about one name instead of two :-) Steven
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