xml-dev - Re: Standard way to express object, not resource, rels in XML?

[tpassin@home.com]

"Mike Brown" <mbrown@corp.webb.net> wrote -

> I want to use XML to express relationships between instances of the
> conceptual/abstract objects that are each modeled by separate XML
documents
> (or separate collections of documents). I was about to make something up
> that was specific to my application, but I was wondering if there was a
> standard way to do this.
> ...
> RDF seems to be concerned with metadata like this, but a cursory
inspection
> of what RDF covers made it look like it, too, was more concerned with
> "resources" like documents. Would RDF actually be a good system for
modeling
> the kinds of relationships I am talking about, or should I just make
> something up that is specific to my application? If RDF is applicable, can
> someone provide a short example of how it should be done?
>
It would seem that somewhere, your system would need to know where foo1 and
foo2 are, if only to be able to get at their properties.  You could hide
this from a user, though.

RDF would seem to be the thing.  You could look at Topic Maps, too.

Tom Passin