Issue on setting of [current resource] (addendum to Re: Issue on the latest syntax document: setting of [chaining])

My apologies not to have realized that in my earlier mail.

The current description relies on the value of [chaining] for setting
the value of [current resource] to [current object resource]. That does
not apply any more if what I say below is correct.

Maybe not the most elegant, but the way I see solving this is to use yet
another flag, called [change resource]. Using this flag, two changes:

- The 3rd item in 3rd step currently says:

"If any triples are generated then the [chaining] flag is set to true."

which should be changed to

"If any triples are generated then the [change resource] flag is set to
true."

- 4th step should say:

4. If the [change resource] flag is set to true then the [current
resource] is set to the value of the [current object resource], and the
[change resource] flag is set to false.

I know I do not refer to @instanceof in this mail, but I will describe
in my next mail why:-)


Ivan


Ivan Herman wrote:
> To make the versioning clear, this is a comment on
> 
> http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/2007/ED-rdfa-syntax-20070906/
> 
> on Section 4.3, Processing
> 
> At present, the flag [chaining] is bound to @rel, @rev, or @instanceof.
> The processing steps say that _if_ any of those attributes generate
> valid triples, (2nd and 3rd item in the 3rd step), then the [chaining]
> flag is set to True. Otherwise it is False (although this latter is not
> explicitly said in the text). I am not sure that is correct. Inspired by
> Mark's beloved example:-):
> 
> <span property="a:bla" rel="p:q" resource="http://a.b.c">Einstein said
> E=mc<sup>2</sup></span>
> 
> This will generate the triples
> 
> <> p:q <http://a.b.c>;
>    a:bla "Einstein said E=mc<sup>2</sup>"^^rdfs:XMLLiteral.
> 
> which is fine, but I do not think that chaining should go beyond the
> <span> element in this case. Put it in an informal way, [current object
> literal] has already provided for a correct interpretation of that
> content...
> 
> I think the correct way of saying this is that:
> 
> - [chaining] is set to True by default when entering processing [current
> element]
> - [chaining] is set to False, if
>    - no @content attribute is present
>    - any triples are generated using the [current object literal], ie,
>      first item in 3rd step.
> 
> Ivan
> 

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