- From: Jonathan Borden <jborden@mediaone.net>
- Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 22:49:22 -0400
- To: "Ray Fergerson" <fergerson@SMI.Stanford.EDU>, "rdf interest" <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
Ray Fergerson wrote: > > My confusion on this issue is the result of the following two > passages: > > ------------- > M&S, section 3.1: > Alternative might be used to provide alternative language translations > for the title of a work, or to provide a list of Internet mirror sites > at which a resource might be found. Emphasis on "might", when it comes down to the wire, I can't say that I can define "Alt" in any way other than "one of a set" ... given that people have so much trouble deciding whether two URIs are "equivalent" (unless they are string literally equal), I doubt that even after thousands of messages, we would be able to get a really good definition of "Alt" beyond "pick one in the set" > An application using a property > whose value is an Alternative collection is aware that it can choose > any one of the items in the list as appropriate. "Appropriate" for what? Appropriate for a particular application it seems is decided by the application. > > M&S, section 3.2 > An Alt container is required to have at least one member. This member > will be identified by the property _1 and is the default or preferred > value. > ------------- > Again, in the absence of a strict, and hence meaningful, definition, I would allow applications to decide how they might use "Alt", (within bounds of reason :-))) Jonathan Borden The Open Healthcare Group http://www.openhealth.org
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