From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2002-02-23T15:45:16+09:00
Subject: Re: rdoc/xml questions

james@rubyxml.com writes:

> >          <class name="A::B">

> 
> I'm unhappy with name="A::B", as it hides the relationship of A to B
> inside the attribute value, using non-XML notation. Perhaps
>           <class name="B" container="A">
> 
> or something along those lines

I thought about this a while before originally posting. The problem is
that the relationships can get pretty complex pretty quickly (as there
is arbitrary nesting, and classes can be inner classes in singletons
and so on. So I wouldn't want to capture the interrelationships using
the attributes at all--I'd view the attribute here as simply a
label. That's why I was wondering if the nested representation might
be better. I was also showing a somewhat simplified set of
attributes. In reality a class or module would likely have its name,
its fully qualified name, and the name of a parent class as
attributes.

> > 2. For hyperlinking between things, should I use my own tags, or
> >    are there benefits to using xlink/xpointer?
>
> ...

> I'm also wondering if there exists some appropriate RDF-based syntax
> that can be used for this.  (On the other hand, that may just make
> this more complicated than it need be.)

Could you elaborate on the RDF stuff?

Thanks

Dave