Jon Knight writes:
> As a programmer I really can't see the problem with calling the
> element that is destined to hold an identifier for the resource,
> "Identifier".
Here is a different perspective: from high enough above this
element-name-hell, the names of elements are irrelevant. We (someone)
will need to provide mappings between different schemas anyway, and as
long as the schemas are well defined enough to support the mappings,
it doesnt matter what things are called.
After all, why are we assuming English names for elements? Is the
consensus of the world (our communities anyway) that English has won?
So I don't really care if it is called "Identifier", even if the
element may hold the actual (small) resource in some cases. But what
happens when the resource *IS* an identifier? (First class objects
everywhere!)
dan
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