Re: a blank node issue

On 03/02/2011 07:21 PM, Pat Hayes wrote:
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> On Mar 2, 2011, at 9:54 AM, Richard Cyganiak wrote:
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>> On 2 Mar 2011, at 14:18, William Waites wrote:
>>> maybe some convention or
>>> standard for skolemising blank nodes so they can be 
>>> referred to might be a good thing?
>>
>> There is already a convention/standard for skolemising blank nodes: just use a URI instead.
> 
> But that subtly changes the RDF, because the URI has global scope. 

Is there any practical difference between bnodes and normal nodes,
except the scope (and necessity) of their name?

Best,
Jiri

> Pat
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>> Richard
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>>> Cheers,
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