Re: ISSUE: #rdfms-identity-anon-resources

At 06:47 PM 6/29/01 -0400, Dan Brickley wrote:
>On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Aaron Swartz wrote:
>
> > On Thursday, June 28, 2001, at 06:35  AM, Graham Klyne wrote:
> >
> > > In the current RDF specification (that we are chartered to
> > > clarify), is this a purely syntactic issue, or does the "model"
> > > also allow for anonymous resources?
> >
> > I think that's half the battle! My vote is for syntactic.
>
>My understanding of 'anonymous resource' is that an RDF/XML file mentions,
>but does not name by URI, some Web resource. I'm at a loss as to how this
>could be merely XML-syntactic: if the information isn't in the XML file, it
>isn't going to be accessible to parsers and consequently any RDF "model"
>(aka graph... whatever...) generated by the RDF parser is also going to
>mention but not name those same RDF resources.

I don't think that adding a 'genid' to the model can be said to add any 
information that is not present in the XML.  (The 'genid' is presumed to be 
chosen so that it cannot clash with any other identifier used for any other 
purpose.)

So, in this sense, an anonymous resource might be claimed to be 
XML-syntactic:  it is the responsibility of the RDF/XML parser to allocate 
a unique identifier for any resource that is not explicitly named in the 
XML.  I would say that any issue that is dealt with entirely by a parser 
is, ipso facto, a "merely syntactic" issue.

...

(I'm not saying here that this must be the resolution, just trying to point 
out why I think it might be a resolution.)

#g



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Received on Tuesday, 3 July 2001 09:34:42 UTC