[georss] using categories for disambiguation

[Pat Cappelaere]

+1
Pat.


> From: "Gregor J. Rothfuss" <gregor at apache.org>
> Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 13:53:49 -0500
> To: Andrew Turner <ajturner at highearthorbit.com>
> Cc: Pat Cappelaere <pat at cappelaere.com>, <georss at lists.eogeo.org>, Raj Singh
> <raj at rajsingh.org>
> Subject: Re: [georss] using categories for disambiguation
> 
> Andrew Turner wrote:
> 
>>> i'd be more in favor of sean's idea:
>>> 
>>> <category term="mountain" scheme="http://georss.org/physiography"/>
>> 
>> I agree that this is attractive b/c it still specifies that you are
>> referring to geography and not, say "the mountain of stuff you have to
>> do this afternoon". That was why I pointed out the Geonames features
>> for physiography.
> 
> then how about making this the preferred way,  and deprecating the two
> other tags?
> 
> 
>>> plus i just discovered another design problem: according to
>>> http://georss.org/1/xml/1.0/georss.xsd {relationship,featuretype}tag are
>>> attributes, not elements. that means they are single-valued, which makes
>>> folksonomies hard, because you have to settle on the one true term,
>>> instead of supplying as many as you see fit.
>> 
>> That is a "won't go away" error in the schema documentation. They were
>> made elements before 1.0.
> 
> maybe it is time for georss 1.0 errata?