xml-dev - Re: Didier's lab report

[uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com]

> Simon St.Laurent said:
>
> > I wonder if maybe there'd be a way to establish this a little more
> > solidly as a means of providing metadata about links and inclusions.
> > XLink already provides some metadata, but I suspect we're going to
> > find more places where extra information about a link might be useful,
> > and where they might be useful across multiple applications.
>
> Isn't this precisely where topic maps come in?

Ha, little endian.  We big-endians would say "RDF".  But regardless, there
still needs to be an application-specific vocabulary which can then be
incorporated into an RDF or Topic Map system.

So, to take my example.

<MyOriginElement xinclude:href="http://spam.com/doc.xml"
incstyle:href="http://spam.com/foo.xslt" incstyle:param="myvar='hello
world'" xmlns:incstyle="http://includestyling.xml.org/2000"/>

All you'd have to do for RDF incorporation (I'm just a newbie to XTM) is
wrap it in an <rdf:RDF> element and then you automagically have the
triples you want:

['MyOriginElement', 'http://www.w3.org/1999/XML/xinclude#href',
'http://spam.com/doc.xml']
['MyOriginElement', 'http://includestyling.xml.org/2000#href',
'http://spam.com/foo.xslt']
['MyOriginElement', 'http://includestyling.xml.org/2000#param',
'myvar="hello world"']


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