Re: bang ! in turtle

Andy Seaborne wrote:
> On 01/03/11 17:23, Nathan wrote:
>> Andy Seaborne wrote:
>>> On 01/03/11 16:41, Nathan wrote:
>>>> actually ^ may be better.. such that
>>>>
>>>> :a :b :c .
>>>>
>>>> could be written as:
>>>>
>>>> :c ^:b :a .
>>>>
>>>> meaning
>>>>
>>>> :c [ owl:inverseOf :b ] :a .
>>>
>>> meaning there is a there is bnode in the predicate position.
...
>>>
>>> SPARQL has:
>>>
>>> :c ^:b :a .
>>>
>>> meaning
>>>
>>> :a :b :c
>>>
>>> reverses subject and object. The matching process really does swap
>>> subject and object.
>>>
>>> http://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-query/#propertypaths
>>
>> wouldn't that require subjects as literals?
> 
> Yes.

hmm, this is probably a fruitless conversation then, because we can't 
change the RDF semantics, and the choices are bnode predicates or 
literal subjects to allow this (and to align w/ sparql I guess..).

best,

nathan

Received on Tuesday, 1 March 2011 17:40:04 UTC