On Wed, 7 May 2003, Pete Johnston wrote:
> So I guess for completeness, this doc should really specify a "profile"?
> The profile attribute appears on the head element and its value has to
> be a URI, but I don't think that URI has to be a locator for
> anything.... I really don't know whether it would be good form to reuse
> a namespace name/URI for the purpose of identifying such a profile.
> Probably not? (And anyway, which one?!)
The 'problem' with (X)HTML profiles is that they correspond pretty much to
our notion of applications profiles. We don't currently have URIs that
correspond to the two application profiles that we refer to in our own
documentation, 'simple DC' and 'qualified DC'. Unless there's a URL in
the DCMI registry that we could use for these?
As you say, we could simply make up some URLs
http://purl.org/dc/simpledc/
http://purl.org/dc/qualifieddc/
for simple DC and qualified DC and resolve these to abstract definitions
taken from
http://dublincore.org/documents/2003/04/02/dc-xml-guidelines/
And we could encourage people to use the profile attribute to provide a
URI for the other application profiles that they are using.
Does anyone object if I add something along these lines?
Andy
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