- From: Ben Adida <ben@adida.net>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:04:47 -0700
- To: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
- CC: RDFa <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>, SWD WG <public-swd-wg@w3.org>
Everyone else on the list: time to express an opinion on which attribute name you'd like, ASAP :) -Ben Ivan Herman wrote: > 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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