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Subject: Re: [tm-pubsubj] Requirements part1 - towards final draft
Suellen Stringer-Hye wrote: > > tm-pubsubj <tm-pubsubj@lists.oasis-open.org> > > [BV] > 2. "subject definition document" > It comes out from exchanges between Murray and Mary that "document" could be often a > "document node". > So this terminology can be misleading, but I don't see what to propose instead. What is > the generic term for > "document or part of document"? Some suggestions: > > "resource" (seems controversial to me) > "element" (suggesting too much maybe that it should be an XML element) > > [SSH] > > Bernard, > > Before I weigh in with an opinion can you say why you think > "resource" would be controversial? I think "resource" is probably not accurate enough, and in the XTM 1.0 Specification we called it an "addressable resource". I'd stick with XTM terminology as much as possible in order to avoid confusion or the creation of new terms when they might already exist. I think in general "addressable resource" is about as accurate as we'll get, since a subject descriptor is anything at the end of that address, which might be a query string, a URL, an XPath, a URN, etc. Local (ie., custom) resolution of such addresses may be system dependent, but would still be functional within that system. The actual resources being pointed to might be fragments of web pages (my recommendation in the general case) but could be generated images on a CAD/CAM system, returns from database queries, laser light shows. Who knows? Murray ........................................................................... Murray Altheim <mailto:murray.altheim@sun.com> XML Technology Center, Java and XML Software Sun Microsystems, Inc., MS MPK17-102, 1601 Willow Rd., Menlo Park, CA 94025 Corporations do not have human rights, despite the altogether too-human opinions of the US Supreme Court.
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