- From: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 11:22:40 +0100
- To: "Patrick Stickler" <patrick.stickler@nokia.com>, "w3c-rdfcore-wg" <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
At 11:09 26/09/2002 +0300, Patrick Stickler wrote: [...] > > > > Is there a way to express the entailment directly in the XMP api so we can > > execute the test? > >I don't see this as a valid question. Or at least, not one that >provides an illuminating answer. Oh, then my question must not have been clear. You claim that XMP is untidy. I am asking whether there is an objective test whether an API is tidy or not. That is a valid question, right? >Any API that provides for both string-based comparisions and value-based >comparisions will both provide for and not provide for the entailment >you suggest, presuming <b> and <d> have differing, incompatable datatypes >(e.g. string and integer). I think I see what you mean. But the question remains, is there a way of expressing the entailment in the XMP API. >The salient feature of the XMP API which IMO suggests a value-based bent, >is that there are numerous access and manipulation functions which are >intended to insulate applications from the details of lexical representation. Ok, fine - that is the test you are applying. Could you take a look at the Jena API and tell us what conclusion you reach when applying the same test. http://www.hpl.hp.com/semweb/javadoc/com/hp/hpl/mesa/rdf/jena/model/Statement.html Brian
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