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Re: Qualifying links

• From: sateesh narahari <narahari@h...>
• To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@g...>, xml-dev@l...
• Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 16:07:34 -0600

did you look at RDF Schema?.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/CR-rdf-schema-20000327/

You can create a RDF schema, and make your document use it.

Sateesh

----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@g...>
To: <xml-dev@l...>
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 3:44 PM
Subject:  Qualifying links


> Say we have a protocol that reports a list of URIs in the following
format:
>
> <container>
> <href>mailto:julian.reschke@g...</href>
> <href>tel:+49 1234 56788</href>
> <href>tel:+49 1234 56789</href>
> <href>http://www.greenbytes.de</href>
> </container>
>
> The set of href elements is unbounded and can carry multiple types of
URIs.
>
> Obviously, given that this information exists, it would be nice to pass
> additional information, like:
>
> <container>
> <href type="email">mailto:julian.reschke@g...</href>
> <href type="voice">tel:+49 1234 56788</href>
> <href type="fax">tel:+49 1234 56789</href>
> <href type="homepage">http://www.greenbytes.de</href>
> </container>
>
> Obviously, it's easy to invent your own format, but I'm looking for a more
> standardized way.
>
> XLink comes to mind (namely the xlink:role attribute), but after a quick
> search I couldn't find a standardized set of role names for my example.
>
> BTW: it seems that XLink *requires* the links to sit in the xlink:href
> attribute, so that the format would need to change to:
>
> <container>
> <href xlink:href="mailto:julian.reschke@f..."/>
> <href xlink:href="tel:+49 1234 56788"/>
> <href xlink:href="tel:+49 1234 56789"/>
> <href xlink:href="http://www.greenbytes.de"/>
> </container>
>
> (or did I miss something?)
>
>
> Feedback appreciated.
>
>
>
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