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Comments on CC/PP 2.0 Last Call: Usage of Bag/Seq

From: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 17:12:14 +0200
Message-ID: <466D664E.50009@w3.org>
To: public-ccpp2-comments@w3.org
Cc: Stéphane Boyera <boyera@w3.org>
The document makes use of Seq and Bag for Complex attributes[1]. The
problem is that, from an RDF/RDFS point of view, both of these are quite
ill-defined semantically. Though formally they are not deprecated in the
latest (2004) version of RDF, this was more due to chartering and
administrative reasons rather than anything else. From a Semantic Web
perspective it would be better if a new W3C recommendation could avoid
using those.

For Bag-s, multivalued properties could be a clear alternative; lists
(collections) are a clean alternative for Seq-s.

Ivan

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/CCPP-struct-vocab2/#ComplexAttribute


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