Re: On the usage of xml:id and about (was: Re: [office-metadata] Content duplication and ODF related RDF vocabulary)

[Bruce D'Arcus <bdarcus@gmail.com>]

Elias,

On Dec 18, 2006, at 8:40 PM, Elias Torres wrote:

>> In my example, if we assume this in the package:
>>
>> <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://ex.net/foo";>
>>    <rdf:value>foo</rdf:value>
>> </rdf:Description>
>>
>> ... then by way of the about attribute, we can say of that span:
>>
>>    <http://ex.net/foo> rdf:value "foo" .
>>
>> A quite simple statement, but nevertheless.
>
> We cannot say that really (I think). meta:about is to establish a 
> subject
> anywhere in the tree, by no means it's attached to the current 
> element. Let
> me exemplify.
>
> A page located on http://www.ibm.com/
>
> <div about="http://torrez.us/who#elias";>
>
>   ... a whole bunch of html here
>
>   <div property="worksAt">
>       IBM
>   </div>
>
>   ... a whole bunch of html here
>
>   <div property="hasKids">
>       yes
>   </div>
>
> </div>
>
> Would you then say that http://torrez.us/who#elias rdf:value "... a 
> whole
> bunch of html here <div ... </div> ...." ?

That's not what my example was arguing. The rdf:value property was not 
extracted from the content file, but rather from the RDF/XML, where I 
had an explicit rdf:value property.

Am I *really* wrong here?

Bruce