Re: [closed] hendler-01 literals in parsetype collection

At 13:33 +0000 3/27/03, Brian McBride wrote:
>Thanks for the confirmation Jim.
>
>
>At 07:58 27/03/2003 -0500, Jim Hendler wrote:
>
>[...]
>
>>>>If I use current RDF constructs I have no way to produce this as 
>>>>a closed list.
>>>
>>>You might want to amend this statement.  I think your point is 
>>>that the syntax required is ugly, not that it can't be done, Right?
>>
>>Sorry, what I meant to say in this sentence was
>>
>>If I use the other current RDF list constructs (i.e. not including 
>>collection) then I cannot produce this as a closed list.
>
>I'm sorry, but I don't think that is right.  You cannot use the 
>rdf:parseType syntax to create the list, but you can spell out the 
>structure explicitly, e.g.:
>
><rdf:Description>
>   <foo:listValuedProp>
>     <rdf:List rdf:nodeID="head"/>
>   </foo:listValuedProp>
></rdf:Description>
>
><rdf:List rdf:nodeID="head">
>   <rdf:first>first</rdf:first>
>   <rdf:rest>
>     <rdf:List rdf:nodeID="l2"/>
>   </rdf:rest>
></rdf:List>
>
><rdf:List rdf:nodeID="l2">
>   <rdf:first>second</rdf:first>
>   <rdf:rest>
>     <rdf:List rdf:nodeID="l3"/>
>   </rdf:rest>
></rdf:List>
>
><rdf:List rdf:nodeID="l3">
>   <rdf:first>first</rdf:first>
>   <rdf:rest>
>     <rdf:nil/>
>   </rdf:rest>
></rdf:List>
>
>Brian

My apologies, I had not realized this could be done this way outside 
of collections - you are right that I should have simply said it was 
ugly and overcomplex, as opposed to non-doable.
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