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That's a very good point, You should definitely forward your suggestion to the RDF interest list ! the question can be reversed: - how well can we map Xlink to RDF model ? There will be a attempt to answer the second question in the next XLink draft (to be made public real soon), Daniel > Question: > Could an RDF "record" be a link? > or could an Xlink be an RDF record? > > At first sight this may not be too significant, but if you think more about > it, it brings tremendous advantages. So, let's imagine, for a second if an > xlink extended locator would also be an RDF "record". The link would also > contain meta-information about the linked resource for instance if I have > the following expression: > > <specifications xlink:type="extended"> > <rdf:desciption xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="http://www.w3c.org/xlink"> > <relase_date>12/24/99<release_date> > <type>christmas gift</type> > <description>W3C would be a santa claus for us poor XML > developers</description> > </rdf:description> > </specifications> > > OK, put as resource description more significant information :-)) but the > point here is the following: if an RDF description would also recognize the > Xlink attribute for linkage (so that we can replace the > rdf:about="http://www.w3c.org/xlink" with > xlink:href="http://www.w3c.org/xlink" then the resource description can also > be a link. or vise versa. > > The impacts are: > a) more significant links (links that also include meta-information about > the linked resource) > b) Resources descriptions could be used as links (the commutative reasoning) > c) a browser can display a one to many link as a two level context menu as > below > > rdf specifications ---------------------- > | W3C documents | > | Didier's suggestion | > | examples |---------------------- > ----------------------| author: Will johnson | > | date: 12/24/99 | > | description: bla.. | > ------------------------ > The first menu is...a menu, then when a particular locator is highlighted, a > tool tip kind of window is displayed to provide additional information about > the link (the meta information about the resource). > d) probably a lot more I didn't envisionned. > > Observation: > I discovered something observing the W3C output. It seems that each > workgroup creates its own workspace... heu sorry, its own name space and do > not re-use the work of others (have you found a lot of name space element > re-usage among the WGs?). For example, it would be beneficial is the rdf WG > would use the xlink workgroup reference attribute for the resource reference > and vise versa. The xlink group can as well take the rdf:about attribute as > a resource reference. Anyway, if these group where to talk each other or > just exercise their synthetic mind, it would become more obvious that if > they mix a bit their mind space... heu sorry their name space they would > provide us synergistic constructs. Or maybe that it never occurred to > somebody that a resource could be a link or that a link could also be a > resource description. Hoops, did I invented something here or did I > discovered that workgroups do not talk each other? > > Cheers > > Didier PH Martin > ---------------------------------------------- > Email: martind@n... > Conferences: > Web New York (http://www.mfweb.com) > Book to come soon: XML Pro published by Wrox Press > Products: http://www.netfolder.com > > > xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... > Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 > To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; > unsubscribe xml-dev > To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; > subscribe xml-dev-digest > List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...) -- Daniel.Veillard@w... | W3C, INRIA Rhone-Alpes | Today's Bookmarks : Tel : +33 476 615 257 | 655, avenue de l'Europe | Linux XML libxml WWW Fax : +33 476 615 207 | 38330 Montbonnot FRANCE | Gnome rpm2html rpmfind http://www.w3.org/People/all#veillard%40w3.org | RPM badminton Kaffe xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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