- From: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 13:36:56 -0500
- To: Jan Algermissen <algermissen@acm.org>
- cc: www-archive@w3.org
> After I hit 'send' I realized that my posting was unclear, sorry.
And I see this only after hitting send. oops!
> > > http://www.topicmaps.org/xtm/1.0/language.xtm
>
> > I don't see any URIs defined there. I see ids defined there. How do
> > you connect the two?
>
> The idea is that each <topic> element in a topic map is a surrogate for
> a subject (anything you want to talk about) and that the combination of the
> document URI and the IDs 'produces' URIs that are identifiers for the subject
> s
> that are surrogated by the <topic> elements. This is not different from the
> way RDF uses the id attribute (if I get it right).
>
>
> Aside:
>
> I am by now absolutely convinced that fragment identifiers should be
> avoided in URIs that are intended to be used as subject identifiers and
> I myself strongly favor URIs such as
>
> http://www.topicmaps.org/xtm/1.0/language/de
>
> that might well be defined in a single huge HTML document so humans
> can look up the 'meaning' of the URIs.
Me too.
http://www.topicmaps.org/xtm/1.0/language/de issue a "303 See Other"
to an HTML document which documents it.
> But language.xtm and country.xtm are already widely used in the TM world.
Arg.
-- sandro
Received on Monday, 31 March 2003 13:38:55 UTC