Re: [RDFa] ISSUE-3: syntactic sugar for rdf:type

instanceof is still the closest to the RDF meaning, isa refers back to
the usage in turtle. Although I share Steven's uneasiness about the
two-word thing, they still seem to be the best...

Among the others listed only 'kind' seems to be appropriate. The others
convey some sort of a meaning that rdf:type does not have...

Ivan

Ben Adida wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> In today's telecon, we proposed and resolved to use a *new* attribute,
> rather than @class or @role, for the rdf:type syntactic sugar. Thus,
> @class and @role do not currently result in any triples being generated,
> although one may consider that they will in a future version.
> 
> The question, then, is which attribute to use. Steven expressed
> reservations about two-word attributes like "isa" or "instanceof", and
> instead proposed: denotes, depicts, represents, category, ilk, kind.
> 
> Other thoughts?
> 
> I'm partial to "instanceof" and "kind", and I have no additional
> suggestions.
> 
> -Ben
> 

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