Re: Defining Arc?

I'm agnostic about defining 'Arc'.  But I do think the term 'node' is 
useful separately from the context of "nodes and arcs diagrams".

#g
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At 12:47 05/06/03 +0100, Dave Beckett wrote:

>I am going through the editorial updates to the syntax WD and I got to:
>
> > Does the RDF series need to define "arc"? The original RDF syntax says
> > quite a lot: "directed labeled graphs (also called 'nodes and arcs
> > diagrams')" and defines arc in its glossary as "A representation of a
> > property in a graph form; specifically the edges in a directed labeled
> > graph." The new Concepts and Syntax specs mention yet do not seem to
> > define arc.
>-- http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-comments/2003JanMar/0419.html
>
>We do define node (link to editors' draft dfn):
>   http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/RDFCore/TR/WD-rdf-concepts-20030117/#dfn-node
>
>but not arc.  So can we talk about nodes & arcs pictures anymore? :)
>
>Dave

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