Re: telecon Thursday, 1600 UTC

Ivan Herman wrote:
>> We talked about Mark's most recent e-mail[1] and it deviates from the
>> understanding of the group

Sorry, didn't finish this thought... making it seem very strongly worded. :)

At the last telecon, we assumed that Mark's intentions were to not
change the processing rules in a manner that would affect the processing
rules for @instanceof. IE: That @instanceof only applied to @about and @src.

His set of statements seemed to indicate that @instanceof could apply to
@resource or @href in certain cases, which is not what the rest of the
group understood the rules to be. IF this is Mark's intention, then it
causes a couple of issues.

Let's take the following XHTML:

<a about="#alice" instanceof="foaf:Person"
   rel="foaf:knows" href="#bob">Bob</a>

Under the rules I understand for @instanceof, the following would be
generated:

<#alice> <rdf:type> <foaf:Person>.
<#alice> <foaf:knows> <#bob>.

Now, assume that we remove the @about:

<a instanceof="foaf:Person"
   rel="foaf:knows" href="#bob">Bob</a>

the following would be generated:

_:x <rdf:type> <foaf:Person>.
_:x <foaf:knows> <#bob>.

Notice how the triples that were generated didn't change very much, just
the named node changed to a bnode, and that was all that changed.

If I understand Mark's comments correctly, with the following XHTML:

<a about="#alice" instanceof="foaf:Person"
   rel="foaf:knows" href="#bob">Bob</a>

The same triples would be generated at first:

<#alice> <rdf:type> <foaf:Person>.
<#alice> <foaf:knows> <#bob>.

until you remove the @about:

<a instanceof="foaf:Person"
   rel="foaf:knows" href="#bob">Bob</a>

at which point, the triples change completely:

<#bob> <rdf:type> <foaf:Person>.

Not saying that is good or bad, just outlining the differences.

I thought, however, that we had moved away from the idea of @instanceof
applying to anything other than @about and @src, specifically because of
how different the triples that are generated become when you add and
remove other RDFa attributes?

I was also under the impression that @instanceof does not "inherit" its
subject from parent elements.

-- manu

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Received on Friday, 21 December 2007 17:30:14 UTC