Re: [xri-comment] My Feedback for XRD Vrsion 1.0

[Will Norris <will@willnorris.com>]

On Nov 9, 2009, at 9:10 PM, Santosh Rajan wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Will Norris <will@willnorris.com>  
> wrote:
>
>>
>> The resource described by the XRD (the "given Resource" is your  
>> parlance)
>> is not "made up" of it's related resource.  It is not an aggregate  
>> of the
>> resources to which it is related.  It is a resource in its own  
>> right.  An
>> XRD need not even declare related resources if they are not  
>> relevant for the
>> particular application.
>
> I think this part is very crucial to the whole argument. Resource's  
> can be
> made up of other Resources. (Aggregates).
> If as you say "XRD is a Resource in its own right". Yes you are  
> right in the
> sense that an "XRD describes a Resource". But that does not mean  
> that the
> Resource cannot be made up of "other resources". After all that is  
> why you
> have the Link elements.

And on this, we'll just have to agree to disagree.  Given that this is  
"crucial to the whole argument", it seems we'll just have to agree to  
disagree on that as well.