Re: [office-metadata] Binding proposal(s) status for the call

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

Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
> 
> On Mar 21, 2007, at 9:00 AM, Svante Schubert wrote:
> 
>> By posting this you give me the impression that you are not convinced 
>> by the arguments I listed for the usage of an package URL similar to 
>> odf:/
>> May I ask, what make you cling to this solution? What have I overseen?
> 
> I don't think you're really addressing the problem, which is the base 
> URI for the document. It seems to me you're trying to avoid using a base 
> URI. That's really the only advantage your suggestion has: it's 
> basically a dummy base URI.

I'm not trying to avoid a base URI in general. In fact every document 
has a base URI. That's its location. The RDF that defines URIs specifies 
that. The only thing I'm trying to avoid is defining a base URI in the 
document in situations where this is not required (that is, the 
situations where noone is interested in processing the metadata in the 
document except the user's office application) and where it is difficult 
to maintain the base URI (because it is not well understood by the 
average user what it is for).

> 
> Let's work it out in the call though. I'd want to think through how this 

I will try to join, but cannot promise that. But from my perspective, we 
should not spend to much time on this certain detail, as it is really 
only the question: Is a base IRI mandatory, or is it optional an we take 
the document location as default (as most other standards do).

Michael

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