RE: Why I don't like 'instanceof' (was Re: [RDFa] ISSUE-3: syntactic sugar for rdf:type)

>'type' is an existing attribute in HTML

... that's why my mother always says: Think before you speak/write ;)

But, still, IMHO the *new* attribute should be something 
containing 'type'. Now risking Steven will hate me, I propose:

'typeOf'

Hope I did not open another Pandora's box ;)

Cheers,
	Michael

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 Michael Hausenblas, MSc.
 Institute of Information Systems & Information Management
 JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH
  
 http://www.joanneum.at/iis/
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ivan Herman [mailto:ivan@w3.org] 
>Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 11:17 AM
>To: Hausenblas, Michael
>Cc: Steven Pemberton; Ben Adida; RDFa; SWD WG
>Subject: Re: Why I don't like 'instanceof' (was Re: [RDFa] 
>ISSUE-3: syntactic sugar for rdf:type)
>
>'type' is an existing attribute in HTML
>
>Ivan
>
>Hausenblas, Michael wrote:
>> Again: Why do we refuse naming it 'type'?
>> 
>> Because it is to RDFish? (BTW, we're doing *R*D*F*a)
>> Or are there any (X)HTML (2) issues, I might have missed?
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 	Michael
>> 
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>>  Michael Hausenblas, MSc.
>>  Institute of Information Systems & Information Management
>>  JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH
>>   
>>  http://www.joanneum.at/iis/
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>>  
>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: public-swd-wg-request@w3.org 
>>> [mailto:public-swd-wg-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Ivan Herman
>>> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 10:57 AM
>>> To: Steven Pemberton
>>> Cc: Ben Adida; RDFa; SWD WG
>>> Subject: Re: Why I don't like 'instanceof' (was Re: [RDFa] 
>>> ISSUE-3: syntactic sugar for rdf:type)
>>>
>>> If so... 'category' maybe the closest to what we mean...
>>>
>>> Ivan
>>>
>>> Steven Pemberton wrote:
>>>> I think there are only 3 reasons why I think 'instanceof' is 
>>> a bad choice:
>>>> 1. Multiword, which I already spoke of.
>>>> 2. instance has another meaning in some existing and future XHTML
>>>> documents.
>>>> 3. It comes over as rdf-speak. Up to now we have done our 
>>> best to avoid
>>>> exposing RDF terminology to the XHTML author; no subject, 
>predicate,
>>>> object and so on, just existing HTML concepts where possible.
>>>> Unfortuantely, most of the synonyms have already been taken (class,
>>>> type, role), but I still think we should try and find 
>something that
>>>> reads better than 'instanceof' or 'isa'.
>>>>
>>>> /me runs a thesaurus
>>>>
>>>> sort
>>>> kind
>>>> category
>>>> realm
>>>>
>>>> depict
>>>> portray
>>>> represent
>>>> embody
>>>>
>>>> like
>>>>
>>>> Steven
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:25:48 +0200, Ben Adida 
><ben@adida.net> 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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