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RE: Should xlink:arcrole or xlink:role be the primary way todispatchon related resources? was Re: URIs, names and well known RDDL names,
- From: Jason Diamond <jason@injektilo.org>
- To: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>,Jonathan Borden <jborden@mediaone.net>
- Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 08:44:15 -0800
> I was with you right to this point. I have exactly the opposite
> inclination, namely that the xl:role is all I normally will need to
> look at. If I'm a schema validator, I'm going to special-case
> situations in which there is only one resource with xl:link=the NS uri
> for the schema language I validate with. Release 1 will probably punt
> all other situations. I _really_, _really_ want to get to the point
> where I can have the bare minimum to declare victory, namely:
I can sympathize with this but think that the ability to further constrain
resources using well-known arcrole URIs as Thomas' example showed offers
almost unlimited flexibility without adding that much complexity.
I suspect that all RDDL APIs (regardless of what language they're
implemented in) will provide means to retrieve resources by role, arcrole,
or a combination of both.
>
> <html xmlns:html='.../xhtml'>
> . . .
> <rddl:resource xl:type='simple'
> xl:role='http://www.w3.org/2000/10/XMLSchema'
> xs:href='http://www.example.com/Schemas/myns.xsd'/>
> <rddl:resource xl:type='simple'
> xl:role='http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform'
> xs:href='http://www.example.com/Stylesheets/myns.xsl'/>
> <rddl:resource xl:type='simple'
> xl:role='http://www.w3.org/1999/XML/namespace'
> xs:href='http://www.example.com/DTDs/myns.dtd'/>
> . . .
> </html>
I imagine most directories will look like just that. GetResourceByRole (or
whatever) could be used with no problem. If there's a XSD or DTD in there,
you could probably reasonably assume that you should validate an instance
document with it. But what does the transform do? Does it render an instance
as HTML/FOs? Does it scrape the document for RDF/RSS? Or does it have some
other purpose that I can't even imagine today?
Without arcroles, your namespace can only be effectively "associated" with
one stylesheet using RDDL. There's no problem adding a second resource with
an XSL role to the directory--but how would you know which stylesheet to use
when dereferencing the namespace without some means of disambiguating the
two? This is where GetResourceByArcrole or even GetResourceByRoleAndArcrole
would come in handy.
Jason.