Re: named graphs in HTML

On 09/05/12 16:04, Ivan Herman wrote:
>
> On May 9, 2012, at 16:34 , Sandro Hawke wrote:
>>
>> Option 1:
>>
>> At http://example.com/doc1 we say:
>>
>>         <html>
>>         ...
>>         <script type="text/trig">
>>         @prefix eg:<http://example.com/ns>.
>>         <#section>  { eg:a eg:b eg:c }
>>         </script>
>>         ...
>>         </html>
>>
>> Option 2:
>>
>>
>> At http://example.com/doc1 we say:
>>
>>         <html>
>>         ...
>>         <script type="text/turtle" id="section">
>>         @prefix eg:<http://example.com/ns>.
>>         eg:a eg:b eg:c.
>>         </script>
>>         ...
>>         </html>
>>
>> Okay, yeah, I see your point.   Mechanically, option 1 is okay, and
>> procedurally, it's much simpler.
>>
>> My preference for option 2 comes from my sense of Web Architecture, that
>> id attributes simply continue the URL after the hash.   The URL foo#bar,
>> if "foo" is an HTML document", is the *name* of the section of "foo"
>> with the id "bar".
>
> I agree. It would be better... and we had similar discussions in the RDFa group, ie, whether the @id attribute would be used or not. However, practice went against us: HTML authors, who do not really know too much about these issues, would be bound to make a mistake and get unwanted consequences (so RDFa, for that reason, does _not_ use @id either).
>

Surely that means the @id refers to the whole element 
<script>...</script>, not the contents of the element?

(see javascript access)

	Andy

> Ivan
>
>
>> But whatever.  This wouldn't be the first time
>> people chose expediency of architectural purity.
>>
>>      -- Sandro
>>
>>
>>> Ivan
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> It would also be nice to have a way to say one wants the triples to
>>>> *also* go into the default graph -- so if what you're doing is graph
>>>> annotation you don't have to repeat all the triples in the annotated
>>>> graph.  Maybe class="included" or something; I'm not sure how the
>>>> namespaces of HTML classes works these days.
>>>>
>>>> I know this touches on something Steve said yesterday about getting
>>>> quads when you're expecting triples; I'll reply to that separately.
>>>>
>>>>     -- Sandro
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ----
>>> Ivan Herman, W3C Semantic Web Activity Lead
>>> Home: http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/
>>> mobile: +31-641044153
>>> FOAF: http://www.ivan-herman.net/foaf.rdf
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
> ----
> Ivan Herman, W3C Semantic Web Activity Lead
> Home: http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/
> mobile: +31-641044153
> FOAF: http://www.ivan-herman.net/foaf.rdf
>
>
>
>
>
>

Received on Wednesday, 9 May 2012 16:31:02 UTC