RE: [xri-editors] Relative cross-references

["Drummond Reed" <drummond.reed@onename.com>]

Funny you should ask, Dave. I was just about to use a relative
cross-reference to illustrate your answer to the last question. As I've
studied the use of XRIs, esp. in the context for XDI, the issue of
"substituting for white space" has increased in importance.

For example, if you want to reference the concept widely known in
English as "table of contents", you can't escape the reality that it is
identified by 3 English words. No one knows it by the term "contents" or
even "tablecontents". It is "table of contents".

If you scrunch it down to "TableOfContents" or "tableofcontents", you
lose information. You don't actually know the original three words. And,
from a semantic mapping standpoint, you lose the absolutely critical
information that "table of contents" is actually linked to the concepts
of "table" and "contents". 

So what's the best way to properly express this as an XRI?

	xri:+(.table.of.contents)

In other words, a relative XRI used as a cross-reference because what it
does is link three separate concepts (table, of, and contents) into one
concept.

I've got several other use cases as well (some of which I posted on the
discussion thread when I raised the whole issue of relative
cross-references) but I think this makes the point. I've got to take off
for a meeting and will be offline for a few hours.

=Drummond  

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave McAlpin [mailto:dave.mcalpin@epokinc.com]
Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 11:32 AM
To: 'Dave McAlpin'; Drummond Reed; 'Wachob, Gabe';
xri-editors@lists.oasis-open.org
Cc: 'Veizades, John'; Marc LeMaitre; jerry.kindall@epok.net
Subject: [xri-editors] Relative cross-references

I see we're now allowing relative cross-references. I remember we talked
about this and I guess we decided to allow them, but I'm not at all
clear
what they mean. Does someone have an actual use case in mind?

Dave




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