The W3C Evaluation and Repair Tools Working Group has posted the first public working

The W3C Evaluation and Repair Tools Working Group has posted the first public working draft of Pointer Methods in RDF. "This specification contains a framework for representing pointers - entities that permit identifying a portion or segment of a piece of content - making use of the Resource Description Framework (RDF). It will also describe a number of specific types of pointers that permit portions of a document to be referred to in different ways. When referring to a specific part of, say, a piece of Web content, it is useful to be able to have a consistent manner by which to refer to a particular segment of a Web document, to have a variety of ways by which to refer to that same segment, and to make the reference robust in the face of changes to that document." Briefly, this defines a meta-pointer representation that can encompass XPointers, CSS selectors, Byte offset pointers, line-char pointers, and potentially other forms of pointers into documents. Here's one of the simpler examples from the spec: More...

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