[Nml-wg] id/idRef

[Roman Łapacz]

W dniu 2012-07-18 16:43, Aaron Brown pisze:
>
> On Jul 18, 2012, at 10:19 AM, Freek Dijkstra wrote:
>
>> On 18-07-2012 16:11, Aaron Brown wrote:
>>
>>>>> To me IdRef is only for referencing/reusing or
>>>>> chaining existing elements. That's all. Without inheritance. 
>>>>> Simple use
>>>>> case: a resource X is defined in a topology storage/service TS1. X is
>>>>> pointed in a topology storage/service TS2 (e.g. to describe 
>>>>> multi-domain
>>>>> link). Use of IdRef for X in TS2 is very useful.
>>>>
>>>> So you want to use idRef ONLY for pointers to another document, or also
>>>> pointers within the same document?
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> I think the difference is in saying "i've created a new element right
>>> here with id X" vs. "i'm referencing an element with id X that is
>>> defined elsewhere". I think this is where it dovetails with inheritence.
>>> It's basically letting people know "i'm defining 0 or more attributes
>>> about this element, but you need to go elsewhere to find the rest of the
>>> attributes".
>>
>> So how to put this info into RDF? Remember, there is no id/idRef in RDF.
>>
>> I previously proposed something along the lines of:
>>
>>>  urn:ogf:network:example.net:2012:somepointer   nml:isauthoritative 
>>>   "False"
>>
>> but that got rejected, since "authority" was not the correct wording.
>> Could either of you come up with a better proposal or wording?
>
> Instead of saying "i'm authoritative" or "i'm not authoritative". How 
> about making inheritance a first-order relationship? e.g.
>
> <nml:BidirectionalLink id="urn:ogf:network:example.net:2012:mylink">
> <nml:Link><nml:Relation 
> type="inherits">urn:ogf:network:example.net:2012:mylink-a-to-b</Relation></nml:Link>
> <nml:Link><nml:Relation 
> type="inherits">urn:ogf:network:example.net:2012:mylink-b-to-a</Relation></nml:Link>
> </nml:BidirectionalLink>
> <nml:Link id="urn:ogf:network:example.net:2012:mylink-a-to-b">
> <nml:name>A to B</nml:name>
> </nml:Link>
> <nml:Link id="urn:ogf:network:example.net:2012:mylink-b-to-a">
> <nml:name>B to A</nml:name>
> </nml:Link>
>
> The idRef thing could get used as a shortcut if we wanted to simplify 
> it in the XML-case.

Looks good to me.

Roman

>
> Cheers,
> Aaron
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Freek
>>
>
> ESCC/Internet2 Joint Techs
> July 15-19, 2012 - Palo Alto, California
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> http://events.internet2.edu/2012/jt-stanford/
>

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