Hi James,<div>I can see a serious problem with your argument. You are assuming the meta-data "is not a resource". I think meta-data is also a "Resource".</div><div><br></div><div>Can you tell me why "meta-data" is not a Resource?</div>
<div><br></div><div>All the three XRD's you mentioned are also "Resources", and they also have <Subjects> that happen to be the very URI's that you use to address them.</div><div>eg,</div><div><Subject><a href="http://mywebsite/jim.footy.xrd">http://mywebsite/jim.footy.xrd</a></Subject></div>
<div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 7:13 AM, Manger, James H <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:James.H.Manger@team.telstra.com">James.H.Manger@team.telstra.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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</span>Why are you guys so stuck up on allowing XRD's with no Subject?</p>
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</div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">There is a web site with hundreds of *.html pages I wrote about football, dozens written by Alice about football, and a handful I wrote about politics.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">My football pages all include <link rel=”describedby” href=”/jim.footy.xrd”/>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Alice’s football pages all include <link rel=”describedby” href=”/alice.footy.xrd”/>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">My politics pages all include <link rel=”describedby” href=”/politics/meta/j.xrd”/>.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">The content of /Jim.footy.xrd is</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><XRD xmlns=…><Link><Rel>author</Rel><URI><a href="http://jim.footyfanatics.fans/#me" target="_blank">http://jim.footyfanatics.fans/#me</a></URI></Link></XRD></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">There is no <Subject> element. This is metadata for any resource that says this is its metadata, ie any resource with a “describedby” link pointing here.
There is no URI for that collections of resources that could be put in <Subject>.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">I don’t need to go from metadata to resource, just from a resource to its metadata, so I don’t need <Subject> here.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">James Manger</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">
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