Re: A certain difficulty

At 10:46 AM 2/25/00 -0500, David Megginson wrote:
>You must keep more than that -- at the very minimum, you probably keep
>a fourth property indicating whether the RDF object is literal text,
>non-RDF XML markup, or a reference to another resource.  Otherwise,
>there would be no way to distinguish the string "http://www.foo.com/"
>from the resource "http://www.foo.com".

This is true; a level of typing that is only marginally acknowledged to exist
in the RDF spec, which seems to pretendthat the difference between a property's
value being a string and a resource is a *syntactic* issue. 

Still, you couldn't discard this information and be left with anything
useful. -Tim