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At 04:56 03/10/2006, Dave Pawson wrote: >Len Bullard wrote: >>http://drmacros-xml-rants.blogspot.com/ >> >>This is the blog of the Link King. (ooh... a pun). He may be reclusive but >>he isn't dead yet. > > From which, and picking up on Nathans thread. > >I like the idea of metadata in the link endpoint document indicating >that 'source.xml' links to this document. Assists in not screwing links. > >Peter, as well as link types, what information do you need to know >about a link >to present it in a suitable manner? I am not generally concerned with presentation. In general CML is processed without emitting photons to humans. I use XML as a language to represent types and structure of information. It *may* be rendered but often it is not. This is not a comprehensive list but I have things like: <molecule id="m1>... atoms ... </molecule> ... <molecule ref="m1"> effectively the same as a Java reference. I need molecule m1 at this stage but I don't want to copy it: <map role="spectrumAnnotation"> <link fromType="atom" from="a1" toType="peak" to="p1"/> </map> says that atom a1 corresponds to peak p1. Or p1 is annotated by saying it is "caused by", "explained by" etc a1 and then I want a linkbase that defines a bounded hyperdocument. I pick up the index document and get everything else >I.e. is there a required/optional set of link properties that would assist in >your particular usage (presentation I believe is your issue)? No - presentation can be done with normal stylesheets. Semantic annotation is what I care about. What does it mean, not what does it look like to a human. >Peter pointed out that it might be useful to know that the link target is >a document (can be dereferenced?) as apposed to a car (RDF links?). I am also (and perhaps more) concerned with elements within a document. >Perhaps 'last validated' with a date, to address stale links? Important - but not top priority for me. if links are first class elements then all elements should be validatable in some way >What other properties are useful for you? > > >regards >-- >Dave Pawson >XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. >http://www.dpawson.co.uk > > >_______________________________________________________________________ > >XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by OASIS >to support XML implementation and development. To minimize >spam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting. > >[Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/ >Or unsubscribe: xml-dev-unsubscribe@l... >subscribe: xml-dev-subscribe@l... >List archive: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ >List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php Peter Murray-Rust Unilever Centre for Molecular Sciences Informatics University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK +44-1223-763069
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