Re: [xml-dev] RDDL: natures updates

[Leigh Dodds <leigh@ldodds.com>]

Jonathan Borden wrote:
> In response to the TAG request I've updated http://www.rddl.org/natures 
> to deprecate the old nature URIs and suggest new URIs. This is all of 
> the form:
> 
> For XML Schema (the archetypical example):
> 
> (old nature) http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema
> 
> (new nature) http://www.rddl.org/natures#XMLSchema

The nice feature (IMO) that is lost here is "closure" over the resource 
natures.

E.g that (in theory at least) a software agent could discover additional 
information about a nature by dereferencing the nature URI. E.g. a 
browser or other agent could use this mechanism to find a suitable list
of plugins or services capable of using that resource.

Cheers,

L.
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