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Mike Brown wrote: > I want to use XML to express relationships between instances of the > conceptual/abstract objects that are each modeled by separate XML > documents > (or separate collections of documents). I was about to make something up > that was specific to my application, but I was wondering if there was a > standard way to do this. > RDF Schemas are designed for this. In this case the models are contained within the same document, and referred to by identifiers. The models could just as easily be contained in distinct documents. Is this example explanatory? http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-schema/#s7.1 <rdf:RDF xml:lang="en" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:rdfs="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#"> <rdfs:Class rdf:ID="Person"> <rdfs:comment>The class of people.</rdfs:comment> <rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/2000/03/example/classes#Animal"/> </rdfs:Class> <rdf:Property ID="maritalStatus"> <rdfs:range rdf:resource="#MaritalStatus"/> <rdfs:domain rdf:resource="#Person"/> </rdf:Property> <rdf:Property ID="ssn"> <rdfs:comment>Social Security Number</rdfs:comment> <rdfs:range rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/2000/03/example/classes#Integer"/> <rdfs:domain rdf:resource="#Person"/> </rdf:Property> <rdf:Property ID="age"> <rdfs:range rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/2000/03/example/classes#Integer"/> <rdfs:domain rdf:resource="#Person"/> </rdf:Property> <rdfs:Class rdf:ID="MaritalStatus"/> <MaritalStatus rdf:ID="Married"/> <MaritalStatus rdf:ID="Divorced"/> <MaritalStatus rdf:ID="Single"/> <MaritalStatus rdf:ID="Widowed"/> </rdf:RDF> Jonathan Borden The Open Healthcare Group http://www.openhealth.org >
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