Re: [xri] Working Draft 12

[Will Norris <will@willnorris.com>]

For the sake of comparison:

HTML Link (http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/links.html#h-12.1.4):
> The title attribute may be set for both A and LINK to add information about the nature of a link. This information may be spoken by a user agent, rendered as a tool tip, cause a change in cursor image, etc.


Atom Link (http://atompub.org/rfc4287.html#rfc.section.4.2.7.5):
> The "title" attribute conveys human-readable information about the link. The content of the "title" attribute is Language-Sensitive.

HTTP Link Header (http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-nottingham-http-link-header-07#section-5.4):
> The "title" parameter, when present, is used to label the destination of a link such that it can be used as a human-readable identifier (e.g. a menu entry).



HTML and Atom leave it somewhat vague, and are more inline with what you said, Eran.  HTTP Link header seems to state that the title specifically labels the linked resource, depending on how you define "the destination of a link".

Perhaps change it to simply state: "The <Title> element contains a string value that provides a human-readable description for the link." ?

-will


On Jan 21, 2010, at 1:29 PM, Eran Hammer-Lahav wrote:

> Title is for helping people select links. Its content is whatever helps accomplishes that.
> 
> EHL
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> On 1/21/10 1:09 PM, "Will Norris" <will@willnorris.com> wrote:
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> On Jan 20, 2010, at 11:56 PM, Drummond Reed wrote:
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>> SECTION 2.7
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>> "The <Title> element contains a string value that provides a human-readable
>> description for the linked resource."
>> 
>> Suggest: "The <Title> element contains a string value that provides a
>> human-readable description for *the relationship with* the linked resource."
> 
> no, Title actually identifies the linked resource.  The description of the relationship is implied by the rel value.  The purpose of title is to, for example, prompt the user to select between to linked resources that have the same rel value.  Depending on how people choose to word the title, it may actually include the relationship as well, but that's not its primary purpose.
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> -will