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"Jonathan Borden" <jborden@m...> writes: > Henry writes > > "Jonathan Borden" <jborden@m...> writes: > > > I also agree with Jason's analysis. Practically since RDDL was > > > conceived, I've been going back and forth on what should an > > > arcrole vs. role be w.r.t RDDL. Indeed one morning while driving > > > to work, I suddenly became conviced that we'd got it all wrong, > > > and confused an arcrole for a role. At the end of the day I'd > > > conviced myself that arcrole was fine and that was that... > > But you go on to contradict what Jason, Tim and I are all saying! See > > below. > > > > > This is how I see it: > > > > > > Software will use xlink:arcrole is to dispatch on a resource for a given > > > URI. > > Let me add one point to this. Personally I agree (strongly I might add) with > your views on types and documents and if namespace URIs were used in a > consistent fashion then this would clearly be the way to go. No question. > The problem is that even among W3C RECs there fundamentally different uses > of namespace URIs vs. DOCTYPES and the best example of this is XHTML. Of > course this raises the old one vs. three namespace debate and I just want to > avoid this debate here, that's all. I *do* want to use xlink:role to > dispatch on type, its just that I don't want to loudly proclaim that type > based dispatching is the primary way to dispatch. That's why I think the > best way to explain this is that we dispatch on the name of the link. > > Perhaps we can define xlink:role implicitly as the root namespace URI if > otherwise not specified. This all sounds roughly right. More on other threads. ht -- Henry S. Thompson, HCRC Language Technology Group, University of Edinburgh W3C Fellow 1999--2001, part-time member of W3C Team 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht@c... URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/
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