Robert Wilton <[email protected]> writes: > On 14/02/2017 16:30, Christian Hopps wrote: >> Robert Wilton <[email protected]> writes: >>> A roughly equivalent example might be perhaps like CDDB, where a program >>> can take a CD track, and go and fetch the associated metadata from some >>> known location without the metadata being embedded in the CD track itself. >> Sure, but that is setup that way b/c the CD data is seen as read only >> right? I don't think this is even the normal way to tag things. There >> are tons of examples of the opposite where the item itself is tagged >> (XML attributes, social media's #hashtags, cow ears, ...). > It will be easier to change the tag on a cow ear than on a standardized > YANG module, but I like your example ;-) > > It is outside my area of expertise, but I expect that most of the > meta-data associated with a cow is not attached to the cow itself, but > stored in some database somewhere. The cow ear tag is more so that you > can identify the right cow in the database.
On some other threads I've given the example of a tag that indicates an "interface" (like java has interfaces), is present. In that case the actual metadata (the interface definition) is present elsewhere and the tag is just like a cow ear tag, i.e., a reference. This is the case with most tag uses I think, the only difference may be the amount of information that is represented by the tag. Thanks, Chris.
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