- From: Perry A. Caro <caro@Adobe.COM>
- Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 09:59:40 -0800
- To: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
Simon Cox wrote: > > This issue appears quite often. > For example, in the "Simpler Syntax" document that Tim Berners-Lee > posted ( http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Syntax ) he included a section > discussing this "Identifiers - what is identified?". > Is it that, in contrast to C, etc, XML appears to be missing a syntax element > to indicate to a user agent that the identifier should be dereferenced? I believe XPointer fulfills this role nicely. <http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xptr> In fact, I think the XPath expression language is a very important tool for RDF, with or without a simplification of the syntax. It seems to me that metadata about fine-grain data in an XML doc, where embedding of the metadata in the XML doc is not a requirement or impossible, can be adequately addressed by using XPath expressions as the "identifiers" for RDF objects. Perry
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