Re: root-element and arbitrary triples in RSS (Re: Setting up a purl for rss/1.1)

Reto Bachmann-Gmuer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.syndication.rss.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Ken MacLeod wrote:

>Reto Bachmann-Gmuer <[email protected]> writes:
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>>Christopher Schmidt wrote:
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>>>Since no source is going to want to aggregate these "arbitrary
>>>triples" anyway, why would allowing them make any sense?
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>>- Reifications
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>>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.
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>Two more examples are "generic links" and Enclosures.
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>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.
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>The same applies to enclosures.
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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


 
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