Re: [office-metadata] RDF/XML and XPath

[Michael Brauer - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg <Michael.Brauer@Sun.COM>]

Hi Bruce,

Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
> 
> On Feb 9, 2007, at 12:04 PM, Michael Brauer - Sun Germany - ham02 - 
> Hamburg wrote:
> 
>> In the XForms approach, the RDF triple would be stored in the RDF-XML 
>> stream only. The XForms binding would only be used to display the RDF 
>> triple's object in the content. So, an RDF application does not has to 
>> care about the XForms binding. It finds all information it requires in 
>> the RDF-XML.
> 
> Yes, I know; this is exactly the problem.
> 
> Let me explain ...
> 
> In the preferred implementation, you don't care about the XML. You load 
> the RDF/XML into an in-memory model, and access triples as needed. You 
> come across a URI in a metadata field, for example, and you simply 
> access the triples for it.

Maybe that's the misunderstanding. The text field that has the XPath 
expression is not a meta data field from the RDF perspective, so you 
don't come across it.

Michael