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

[Elias Torres <eliast@us.ibm.com>]

"Bruce D'Arcus" <bdarcus@gmail.com> wrote on 12/18/2006 09:17:46 PM:

>
> 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>

Now I see. Sorry. I thought you were implying rdf:value from just the fact
that the element had an xml:id "http://ex.net/foo";.

> >>
> >> ... 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?

Sorry. You are not wrong at all, except for insisting on the use meta:about
instead of xml:id. :)

>
> Bruce
>