name of rdf:nodeID attribute

The addition of rdf:nodeID is handy, especially from the standpoint of 
end users new to RDF who balk at creating universal URI identifiers for 
all their resources.

However, using the name "rdf:nodeID" both for the description of the 
resource and for the reference is inconsistent and confusing. XML has a 
long history of using "ID" and "IDREF" as names of an identified XML 
node and the node that refers to it, respectively. Similarly, RDF uses 
"rdf:about" and "rdf:resource" for the similar concepts based upon 
resource reference URIs.

Can't we make RDF more internally consistent and consistent with XML by 
using "rdf:nodeID" and "rdf:nodeIDRef", respectively?

Garret

Received on Sunday, 12 January 2003 13:00:14 UTC