Re: root-element and arbitrary triples in RSS (Re: Setting up a purl for rss/1.1)
Reto Bachmann-Gmuer <[email protected]>
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Ken MacLeod wrote: >Reto Bachmann-Gmuer <[email protected]> writes: > > > >>Christopher Schmidt wrote: >> >> >> >>>Since no source is going to want to aggregate these "arbitrary >>>triples" anyway, why would allowing them make any sense? >>> >>> > > > >>- Reifications >> >>a modules that wants to express meta-information on some triples in >>the model (like saying that the statement "item1 dc:author >>'Einstein'" has been marked as possible bug) would have to define >>how the ReifiedStatement are to be used as object of statement in >>the channel-tree. However there is no relation between the channel >>and the ReifiedStatement. >> >> > >Two more examples are "generic links" and Enclosures. > >A few days ago I called for deprecating the RSS Link module and >followed up with an explanation of how it was broken. However, I did >oversimplify by omitting that if one *did* want to indicate how a link >should be traversed or present to the user an alternate title than the >destination resource's title, than one would have to use reification >to do so. > >The same applies to enclosures. > > I don't say the reification approach is less elegant but in my mod_link proposal on http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rss-dev/message/5839 and on http://esw.w3.org/topic/RSS links and enclosures can have properties (like title) that are independent of the enclosed document. reto Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rss-dev/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/