Brian Smith wrote:
> The specification does not say anything about how to interpret terms,
> only that categories are identified by terms.
The "term" attribute is a string that identifies the
category to which the entry or feed belongs.
I can see how in isolation you might read that to mean, for example,
that @term="Green" identifies (or should identify) one global category,
but read along with the next section, I don't see how that could make sense:
The "scheme" attribute is an IRI that identifies a
categorization scheme. Category elements MAY have a
"scheme" attribute.
If @term alone were intended to uniquely identify a category, why have
@scheme at all? And why didn't we create or reference a category scheme
for everyone to share?
I'm quite certain our intent was that absent @scheme, @term would
identify the category of the entry only within the context of the
containing feed. If @scheme is specified, @term would identify the
category within the specified scheme.
Therefore, unless for some reason you want to omit @scheme, I see no
need to use IRIs for @term.
Antone
