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Re: Instantiation

From: Jeroen van der Ham <vdham@science.uva.nl>
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 14:41:11 +0100
Message-ID: <4371FC77.6070201@science.uva.nl>
To: Semantic Web Forum <semantic-web@w3.org>

Hans Teijgeler wrote:
> - one can use rdf:about when it is not accompanied by a statement, 
> now or earlier or imported, with rdf:ID that instantiates it

As far as I understood it, rdf:about can be used in any place where you 
would use rdf:ID, no matter whether the value has been "defined" before 
or not.

In fact, I found a discussion[1] where it was suggested that you use 
only rdf:about, to make it simpler.

Jeroen.

[1]: http://www.daml.org/listarchive/joint-committee/0048.html
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