Re: [office-metadata] Atom and document/feed IRIs

[Bruce D'Arcus <bruce.darcus@OpenDocument.us>]

On Mar 7, 2007, at 9:40 AM, Svante Schubert wrote:

>
> Patrick Durusau wrote:
>> I thought we were talking about assigning IRIs to identify documents? 
>> Rather than path statements.
> You might be right. I took this for an argument for IRI against 
> relative links to xml:id on ODF elements.
>
> Isn't the identification (IRI) of mails and feeds given after they are 
> modified, when they are read-only in their remaining life-cycle?

No, the Atom spec explicitly discusses editing and moving entries and 
feeds.

> Regarding unique identification of ODF documents, generating hash 
> value appear more consistent instead of IRIs.
> Would it not make more sense for us to use an IRI given from an RDF 
> application, like a Invoice IRI?

No. The whole point of giving a document a URI -- whether in RDF or in 
Atom or whatever -- is to be able to identify it.

> I say, leave the identification to the RDF application, which can 
> clarify what makes an ODF document unique in their eyes.

It's not just RDF applications that can benefit from stable and unique 
IDs.

Bruce