Re: rel values

[Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 09 Oct 2004 11:22:16 -0400, Robert Sayre <mint@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Graham wrote:
> 
> > Motion put to the floor of the house:
> >
> > There is no practicable way to make @rel values extensible.
> >

Why aren't URIs practicable?

> Seconded. QNames in attribute values is a bad idea. We will never reach
> consensus to do it.

Ok. Same question again.

> Why not use atom:href in extension elements?
> 
> Get every link in the document like this:
> 
> //*[@atom:href]

You mean something like: 

<foaf:depiction atom:href="http://example.org/danbri-vegemite.jpg"; />

?

That sounds workable, assuming you also had something saying what the
anchor/subject of the link/relationship was (presumably the parent
element) - e.g. if the element above was an immediate child of <entry>
the image would be a depiction of the entry, inside <author> it would
be a depiction of the the author etc.

If this were fleshed out a little I for one would be happy to drop
<link rel...> as an extensibility point.

Cheers,
Danny.

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