- From: Alan Dean <alan.dean@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 08:03:54 +0000
- To: public-wai-ert@w3.org
Reinhard Ruemer wrote: > Allowing both, would mean that information is kept in a redundant > manner (as in your example). I don't actually accept your premise that the information is actually redundant. But, for the sake of discussion, let's say that it is. Why do you object to the redundancy? It would be entirely optional. For me, the important point is not redundancy, it is flexibility (let's face it - the RDF/XML syntax is plenty verbose anyway). I think that it is iniquitous to force a choice between the two representations when allowing a side-by-side representation allows support for consumers who want the primitive *and* those who want the formalised decomposition. By inference, therefore, I assume that if you are against redundancy between http:fieldValue and http:headerValues in my example then you are also against the redundancy between http:fieldName and http:headerName in the original proposal at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wai-ert/2007May/0024.html > I think it is hard to keep track of both > representations at the same time that they are equivalent. I would be very interested to see what the semantic equivalence rules are and how you would carry out a comparison using, say, XPath. > The formalised decomposition is in my opinion the better way of > presenting the data because it is the more structured and formalised > way. Other than the subjective, what practical benefits does formalised decomposition bring that merits it's preference over the literal representation? I can rattle off a set of benefits in the opposite direction that would prefer the literal (ease of use being the primary one, but there are others too). > If someone "needs" the literal string it is not a big thing to get > it out via a script - again because the decomposition is very a > structured way of presentation. I am naturally suspicious of a representation that requires you to execute a script merely to obtain the original input value (see my XPath comparison question above). By the same token, a script could emit the formalised decomposition when needed. However, the critical point is that my proposal does not favour one over the other - it applies a "live and let live" principle that permits both representations without requiring one to be overwritten by the other. Regards, Alan Dean http://thoughtpad.net/alan-dean
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