- From: Murray Altheim <altheim@eng.sun.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 17:17:45 -0700
- To: Jonathan Borden <jborden@mediaone.net>
- CC: Aaron Swartz <aswartz@swartzfam.com>, Danny Ayers <danny@panlanka.net>, RDF Interest <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
Jonathan Borden wrote: > > Murray Altheim wrote: > > > > I feel like I'm not making any progress here though in one idea, and > > that is that linking to "RDF" is almost like linking to "XML" -- one > > needs to specify what specific grammar of RDF is being served. Otherwise, > > the processor has no understanding of the semantics of the received RDF. > > if you look back through the initial discussions on xml-dev as RDDL was > being created, you will see that I initially proposed putting the RDDL > resources in the XHTML head as links, much as is being proposed here. > Needless to say, I was convinced otherwise. Similary MIME types are not > always adequate to describe the linked resource type. This is the reason > behind describing a related resource by its "purpose" with respect to the > link and the "nature" of the related resource. Agreed. It seems strange (perhaps since we have that hindsight 20/20 thing) that such features were left out of earlier specs. > > I don't think there's a MIME type for Dublin Core, and of course there > > won't be for author-designed RDF types. So 'type' doesn't really work > > that well either. Ideally, a namespace URI (ironically) would probably > > be best, since that allows for author-designed RDF applications, and > > doesn't force anyone to use only those RDF applications approved by a > > specific body. > > The nature or xlink:role is often the namespace of the root element of the > referenced resource. Yes, this is my take on our best bet going forward with XLink, though it's ripe for overloading, I fear. Murray ........................................................................... Murray Altheim, SGML/XML Grease Monkey <mailto:altheim@eng.sun.com> XML Technology Center Sun Microsystems, 1601 Willow Rd., MS UMPK17-102, Menlo Park, CA 94025 the wood louse sits on a splinter and sings to the rising sap ain't it awful how winter lingers in springtimes lap -- archy
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