- From: Booth, David (HP Software - Boston) <dbooth@hp.com>
- Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 18:56:19 +0000
- To: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>, Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>
- CC: RDFa <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>, "www-tag@w3.org WG" <www-tag@w3.org>
> Steven Pemberton wrote: > [ . . . ] > > I absolutely support an easy way to say "the main thing described by > > this document", a) since it is such an important and > > frequent use case, > > b) authoring it should be easy, and c) I understood at a > > talk at XTech > > that a lot of people are already doing this wrong. This could be done using http://thing-described-by.org if I changed the delegation of authority the redirect rule at thing-described-by.org to treat an empty query string as a relative URI meaning "this document". That site is a 303-redirect server that is used to mint URIs of things that are described by documents. Basically, for any absolute document URI u, the URI http://thing-described-by.org?u refers to the thing described by document u. At present u is restricted to be an absolute URI, but I could easily change this restriction to permit an empty relative URI to be treated as referring to "this document". This would allow a document such as dans-car.html to use http://thing-described-by.org? to refer to the thing described by dans-car.html -- presumably Dan's car. Or if that URI looks too long then http://t-d-b.org? could do the same thing. As explained at http://dbooth.org/2006/urn2http/ there isn't any need to use urn:tdb: URIs for this -- http: URIs can do the same thing, but better. Of course, this approach doesn't have a standards body behind it, but a standards body certainly could adopt this approach, and it illustrates the fact that it is unnecessary to create a new URN scheme or sub-scheme to accomplish this. David Booth, Ph.D. HP Software +1 617 629 8881 office | dbooth@hp.com http://www.hp.com/go/software Statements made herein represent the views of the author and do not necessarily represent the official views of HP unless explicitly so stated.
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