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On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 08:01:05PM -0500, Simon St.Laurent wrote:
> ziggy@panix.com (Adam Turoff) writes:
> >I've heard the praise and hype for HyTime and out-of-line linking,
> >but I can't say as I've seen a single practical need for it. What
> >would a sensible out-of-line linking language provide that
> >SkunkLink+RDF (or the moral equivalent) *can't* provide?
>
> My primary problem with RDF, XLink, and their current moral equivalents
> is their obsession with URIs as magic identifiers. I've stated a number
> of times that I find working with RDF quite painful because it seems to
> believe that URIs are the one true identifier for everything, and so I'd
> much prefer to work with a dedicated linking vocabulary - but then I
> also find that XLink is not a very good linking vocabulary.
I don't see that as an objection against the moral equivalent of
SkunkLink+RDF as a replacement for XLink. I see that as an objection to
using RDF per se as half of that combination. :-)
Suppose there was a SkunkOOL vocabulary that used tag names to
specify a certain class of out-of-line relationships. The only
URIs would be the resources being linked through xml:href and
xml:src attributes. Would such a vocabulary be a sufficient replacement
for XLink for out-of-line linking?
<ool:document xml:href="http://www.example.com/foobar/";>
<ool:title>Welcome to FooBar Industries</ool:title>
<dc:creator>...</dc:creator>
<ool:schema type="wxs" xml:href="http://www.example.com/foobar.xsd"/>
<ool:schema type="rng" xml:href="http://www.example.com/foobar.rng"/>
<ool:stylesheet type="css"> xml:href="http://www.example.com/foobar.css"/>
<ool:stylesheet type="xsl"> xml:href="http://www.example.com/foobar.xsl"/>
...
</ool:document>
Z.
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