On Friday 09 May 2008 15:22:59 David Carlisle wrote: > > Um - I am very unhappy here: I guess with the whole idea of an > > 'application-default'. If I write <OMS name="plus" cd="arith1"/> then I > > DO mean the standard one, and I DON'T want some application thinking it > > knows better. <OMS name="plus" cd="arith1"/> does NOT mean 'anythning you > > wnat to call plus'. > > agreed, but it depends what the intention of cdbase is (which I don't > think we've ever really been that explict about) > <OMS name="plus" cd="arith1"/> > should mean the standard one, but my application might not read xml > files in CD format or might have a local copy of arit1.ocd in > localhost:/usr/tmp or whatever, so the default retrieval URI (for > example to get associated files for signatures or notations) mightbe > system dependent, but the canonical URI for the symbol (in the RDF sense > where the URI is just a formal, globally unique identifier) should be > http://www.openmath.org/cd/arith1#plus
Thanks, I couldn't have said it better! -- That said, my point boils down to the fact that I always want to be able to obtain this canonical URI, so either it needs to be specified in some @cdbase attribute (including CDSignatures/@cdbase), or the fallback http://www.openmath.org/cd is used. Best, Christoph -- Christoph Lange, Jacobs Univ. Bremen, http://kwarc.info/clange, Skype duke4701
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