Re: Can properties have no value? from Sergey Melnik on 1999-10-01 (www-rdf-comments@w3.org from July to September 1999)

From: Sergey Melnik <melnik@DB.Stanford.EDU>
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 17:47:50 -0700
To: caro@adobe.com
CC: "Ralph R. Swick" <swick@w3.org>, rdf-dev@mailbase.ac.uk, www-rdf-comments@w3.org
Message-ID: <37F404B6.7DC34FB5@db.stanford.edu>

On this issue I tend to agree with John. If we can write in the
abbreviated syntax

<MyClass property="a"/>

and it is equivalent to

<MyClass>
  <property>a</property>
</MyClass>

then replacing "a" with any other string (including "") should retain
the equivalence (i.e. empty literal instead of unnamed resource)


Sergey

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