- From: Aaron Swartz <me@aaronsw.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 20:16:19 -0500
- To: Graham Klyne <Graham.Klyne@Baltimore.com>
- Cc: "Stephen Petschulat/CanWest/IBM" <spetschu@ca.ibm.com>, w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
On Monday, July 16, 2001, at 02:48 PM, Graham Klyne wrote:
> E.g. when exchanging RDF between systems (the reason for
> standardization), do we really want to specify that the
> existence of a node, without properties, is significant? If
> so, we must define the significance, and that looks awkward to
> me.
Can you explain why this seems awkward to you? It seems like a
perfectly reasonable thing to do to me.
The alternative seems to declare that:
<rdf:Description rdf:about="foo" />
means:
<foo> rdf:type rdfs:Resource .
which seems even more awkward.
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