Re: #rdfms-difference-between-ID-and-about

Sorry for being slow, but on reconstruction, how does
one disambiguate between

<rdf:Description rdf:ID="#foo"/>

and

<rdf:Description rdf:about="##foo"/>


guha

Brian McBride wrote:

> Sergey Melnik wrote:
>
> > With respect to this and other syntax issues, I'd like to remind of the
> > "roundtrip" test, which have been raised many times on RDF Interest: an
> > RDF tool must be able to parse, serialize, parse, serialize etc. without
> > loss of information, i.e., on every parse, exactly the same set of
> > statements is produced. Notice that after the first parse, rdf:ID will
> > be necessarity replaced by rdf:about, since the model does not
> > intrinsically capture the information about its origin.
>
> If
>   <rdf:Description rdf:ID="foo"/>
>
> is defined to be equivalent to, i.e. represents the same triples as:
>
>   <rdf:Description rdf:about="#foo"/>
>
> and the round tripping test is defined to be that XML/RDF before
> represents the same triples as the XML/RDF after (i.e. model
> equivalence) which I think is the test that you suggest,
> then this solution passes the round triping test.
>
> Brian