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I'm curious about the exact meaning of the rdf:RDF element in part 1. I'm sure that the authors' intended meaning was something like "Herman Melville was the author of Moby Dick." However, doesn't it actually say that Herman Melville was the author of {in-scope-base-uri}/#a1003, that being the "article" element *itself*?
In part 2, the authors say that "the article element in the example above has a dc:creator value of Herman Melville." The literal meaning of this statement would seem to be that Herman Melville wrote the "article" example seen in part 1. I think that matches what the RDF says, but why would they say this in either RDF *or* English, let alone both?
I'm also confused about the discussion of ID vs. rdf:ID in part 2. Don't we have both because they distinguish between the IDs of entities in the domain under discussion vs. the IDs of the RDF/XML statements making assertions about the entities in the domain under discussion? For instance...
<book
ID="ABsBookElem"
rdf:ID="http://example.org/book/mobyDick">
<dc:creator>Herman Melville</dc:creator>
<dc:date>1851</dc:date>
</book>
<rdf:Description rdf:about="#ABsBookElem">
<dc:creator>Adrian Boyko</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2003</dc:date>
</rdf:Description>
...could mean that H.M. created Moby Dick in 1851, but A.B. created RDF/XML in 2003 which asserts that fact.
Does this article unintentionally blur the distinction between (1) the RDF/XML that discusses domain entities, and (2) the domain entities being discussed? Thanks in advance for any replies that might clarify this for me.
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