Re: ISSUE-94 (n-ary constucts and RDF): Problem with roundtripping when going from functional-style syntax into RDF and back

On 23 Jan 2008, at 10:56, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote:

> SUMMARY:
>
> Round-tripping from the functional-style syntax through RDF/XML is not
> possible in general, so there is no sense in trying to make it  
> possible
> in general.

[snip]

Let's grant this. It still seems to make sense to make the common  
cases and the vast majority straightforward and roundtrippable. I  
take the right conclusion to draw is not to get wildly hung up in the  
corner cases and that the trade off between roundtripping and  
avoiding vocabulary bloat weighs a bit more toward avoiding that one  
might have a priori thought (not that it was insignificant before, by  
anymeans)

Cheers,
Bijan.

Received on Wednesday, 23 January 2008 11:32:11 UTC