Henry Story wrote: > > In my N3 rewriting of the example Service document [1] I came up with 3 > classes: Service, Workspace and Collection. > > - The Service Class one could say clearly has an unique identifier: the > url at which it was fetched (<> above) > > - The Collection (which seems really to be a Feed in disguise) has an > href URI to identify it, and James Snell just posted a good reason to > also add an id there today. > > - But the workspace is problematic. Since a Service document can contain > any number of workspaces, and each of these can contain any number of > collections, there is no clear way to identify these across changes. > What happens to a workspace if it changes title? How is a client to know > that it has not lost its workspace? >
It can't. There is no way of reliably identifying a workspace within an introspection document. Whether or not this will be a problem is unknown. - James
