- From: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 13:35:07 -0500
- To: Jan Algermissen <algermissen@acm.org>
- cc: Dieter Köhler <dieter.koehler@philo.de>, www-rdf-interest@w3.org
> since you might not be familiar with XTM syntax, the idea is > that for example language.xtm provides elements such as > > <topic id="de"> > ... > </topic> > > witch 'produces' the URI > > http://www.topicmaps.org/xtm/1.0/language.xtm#de > > which can be used to identify the German language. I'm confused. The topic map spec says the id on a <topic> element identifies that particular <topic> element in the document [1]. That sounds in line with conventional XML use and with XPointer use [2], not to mention conventional HTML usage. But that's at odds with saying that http://www.topicmaps.org/xtm/1.0/language.xtm#de identifies the German language. Did you mean to say instead that http://www.topicmaps.org/xtm/1.0/language.xtm#de should be used as a subjectIndicatorRef for the German language? That makes sense, but it means it is *NOT* a good RDF identifier for the language. URI-Refs occuring in RDF refer directly not indirectly as subject indicators. (That is, "http://www.w3.org/Consortium/" as an RDF term refers to a web page about the W3C, not to the W3C itself.) (I made a proposal that RDF URI-Refs should sometimes be seen as subject indicators [4], but it was not accepted. After trying to implement my proposal I'm not so fond of it myself.) -- sandro [1] http://www.topicmaps.org/xtm/1.0/#elt-topic [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/REC-xptr-framework-20030325/#shorthand [3] http://www.topicmaps.org/xtm/1.0/#elt-subjectIndicatorRef [4] http://www.w3.org/2002/12/rdf-identifiers/
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