- From: Yoshio Fukushige <fuku@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 08:29:05 -0500
- To: <public-rdf-dawg@w3.org>
>> How about _:foo ? It seems like that should be allowed for symmetry, >> letting people use bNode sugar, but not the longhand form would be odd. >> Also, is "in" a typo? Should it be ":in" or something? > > +1 to having _:foo as well. Sometimes, the syntactic sugar can't express > a graph structure. > > [The bNode-in-query label is just for parsing to be able to say "same as > that one" and is distinct from any bNode in the data target] > +1 for _:foo This (direction) makes creating the query from existent graph easier. i.e. A user can make a query from existent graph (or graph in his/her mind) by replacing *just* nodes in question by variables, which is natural. Without :foo, the user should replace all the bnodes with variables, which is an extra burden. Yoshio Fukushige fuku@w3.org fukushige.yoshio@jp.panasonic.com
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