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Re: RDF/JSON

From: Ben Adida <ben@adida.net>
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 11:16:04 -0700
Message-ID: <46DEF264.2030208@adida.net>
To: Keith Alexander <k.j.w.alexander@gmail.com>
CC: semantic-web@w3.org

Keith Alexander wrote:
> Can you think of any
> use-cases where nested bnodes would be preferable?

I go back to Ivan's bnode use case that made us consider chaining for
RDFa: a bunch of authors on a paper, each with FOAF information. Having
to name each author with a bnode identifier is painful for humans and
annoying even for code.

Not the end of the world, but you are taking away one interesting aspect
of bnodes.

-Ben
Received on Wednesday, 5 September 2007 18:16:14 GMT

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