Re: Re: [xml-dev] ID/IDREF is evil

[Kurt Cagle <kurt.cagle@gmail.com>]

Arjun,

I've been playing in RDF (and RDFA) idioms of late. In general, if I have an outbound resource identification term (an object URI), it is typical in RDF-XML to place it into an attribute, especially if the encoding for the element is not itself RDF. RDF-XML is not my favorite mode of expression - I much prefer working with Turtle - but I'm also trying to be consistent with NIEM conventions. This combination of factors does not necessarily make for friendly XML.  :-)

Kurt Cagle

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On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 6:36 PM, <arjun.ray@verizon.net> wrote:

On 02/19/14, Kurt Cagle wrote:

> <ChildRef rdf:about="child:JaneDoe"/>

I can only shake my head when I see stuff like this:-(


Only in a parallel universe, I suppose, could this have been something like this


   <ChildRef rdf="about">some reference to Jane Doe, even a URI</ChildRef>


My apologies for the interruption.