If I mark up the apartment block with all of its aforesaid components,
in a nested manner, and apply a height, does it apply to the block, or
the brick?
In the immortal words of Bill & Ted:
"Whoa."
Aside from the philosophical implications of marking up any "thing" as
a hItem or even a tree of hItems, here's my take on hItem enabling
cataloging of various items and bundles of items.
To look at a real world example, FreshDirect sells both single items
and bulk cases.
They're each treated as a single row in their product database,
without worrying about nesting 12 individual cans of soup in the
"case"
They've both got a price, description, producer, contents, etc.
I suppose you could have an hItem which contained other hItems, but I
wonder if we're getting close to the 20% there. I'd love to hear other
people's thoughts, as I'm obviously new to this discussion.
Back on the pseudo-philosophical note - could you have a hCard that
contained other hCards? Would that make you schizophrenic? :)
On 11/17/06, Andy Mabbett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eric
Skiff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>hItem is a bit vague on purpose to make it flexible, but in general, i
>think it will be most useful for describing physical goods.
Consider these two examples.
A bottle of wine is an item. So is the case of 12 bottles in
which it is sold.
Is the wine inside the bottle also an object in its own right?
and
A brick is an object.
So is the wall of which that forms part.
So is the room of which that forms part.
So is the apartment of which that forms part.
So is the apartment block of which that forms part.
Is the city of which the apartment block forms a part, also an object?
If I mark up the apartment block with all of its aforesaid components,
in a nested manner, and apply a height, does it apply to the block, or
the brick?
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