- From: Toby Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2010 17:25:48 +0100
- To: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
- Cc: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>, W3C RDFa WG <public-rdfa-wg@w3.org>
On Sun, 2010-08-01 at 21:28 -0400, Manu Sporny wrote: > Unfortunately, I don't think the answer to this one is as simple as > that, Toby. It assumes that we're operating in a DOM environment, > which we can't depend on for the RDFa API. > > I've updated the RDFa API spec to move "origin" into a > developer-modifiable attribute called info. We also had to rename > "origin" to "source" due to Thomas' input on ISSUE-29. So, the way you > access the property at the moment is: > > triple.subject.info.source What it's called does not matter so much to me. What I'm concerned about is that the origin is being attached to the IRI, PlainLiteral, TypedLiteral and BlankNode interfaces when it's more useful if attached to the RDFTriple interface. i.e. what we now have, in a JSON-ish notation is something like this for an RDF triple: { "subject" : { "value" : "http://tobyinkster.co.uk/#i", "origin" : (some node) }, "predicate" : { "value" : "http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/name", "origin" : (some node) }, "object" : { "value" : "Toby Inkster", "origin" : (some node) }, } Whereas it would be better if it were: { "subject" : { "value" : "http://tobyinkster.co.uk/#i" }, "predicate" : { "value" : "http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/name" }, "object" : { "value" : "Toby Inkster" }, "subjectOrigin" : (some node), "predicateOrigin" : (some node), "objectOrigin" : (some node) } Or: { "subject" : { "value" : "http://tobyinkster.co.uk/#i" }, "predicate" : { "value" : "http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/name" }, "object" : { "value" : "Toby Inkster" }, "origins" : { "subject" : (some node), "predicate" : (some node), "object" : (some node) } } Or even: { "subject" : { "value" : "http://tobyinkster.co.uk/#i" }, "predicate" : { "value" : "http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/name" }, "object" : { "value" : "Toby Inkster" }, "origins" : [(some node), (some node), (some node)] } By moving the origins outside the IRI, PlainLiteral, TypedLiteral and BlankNode interfaces, it becomes trivial to test for equivalence between nodes. -- Toby A Inkster <mailto:mail@tobyinkster.co.uk> <http://tobyinkster.co.uk>
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