[georss] GeoRSS Location References

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 09:39:03PM -0700, Ron Lake wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In GML the type of the resource referenced in the link is signaled by
> the remoteSchema attribute.  This is usually an xpointer expression that
> references a schema fragment describing the resource.  It is up to the
> application to decide if it wants to fetch the remote schema fragment
> and validate the remote resource.

I'm not entirely sure if this is a similar situation. It sounds somewhat
dissimilar. In any case, it doesn't 

> In RDF all such references (rdf:resource) must comply with the resource
> type identified in the schema (RDFS).  RDF parsers always fetch and
> validate such links.  

Huh? Neither of these are true in RDF. 
 1. RDF is 'open world': an RDFS can describe only one particular
    interprtation, and the basic assumption is always that there are
    other interpretations out there. (Possibly even conflicting ones.)
 2. No RDF parser I've ever used has ever fetched anything I didn't
    explicitly tell it to.   

> This was felt to be too heavy weight in GML.

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
Web Developer