Re: XML Schema draft populates the intersection of Language and InformationResource [ISSUE-14 httpRange-14]

Richard Cyganiak wrote:
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> 
> On 28 Sep 2007, at 20:24, Dan Connolly wrote:
>> The 303 redirect stuff is almost always more trouble than it's worth.
>> I can't think of any cases other than legacy when I'd recommend it.
>> Using doc#term is much more straightforward.
> 
> I'm surprised to hear that.
> 
> As I understand it, <doc#term> without 303 can't handle content 
> negotiation.
> 
> If RDF is served at <doc>, then <doc#term> identifies whatever the RDF 
> says about it (so it could be anything). If HTML is served at <doc>, 
> then <doc#term> clearly identifies a section of an HTML document. To me, 
> that seems like an unacceptable ambiguity. A 303 from <doc> to <doc.rdf> 
> and <doc.html> is needed to resolve this.
> 
> So, are you saying that content negotiation is not worth the trouble, or 
> that the ambiguity doesn't matter?

As an aside ... TAG might want to take a good look at how #foo works in 
RDFa, when the syntax TR comes out... Potentially RDFa gives us 
something that can serve as a human readable and a machine readable 
namespace doc.

Optimistically,

Dan

Received on Saturday, 29 September 2007 01:14:30 UTC