Re: RDF/XML Syntax Specification (Revised) W3C Working Draft published from Brian McBride on 2001-12-20 (www-rdf-interest@w3.org from December 2001)

From: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 10:50:44 +0000
To: Dave Beckett <dave.beckett@bristol.ac.uk>, mmoran@netphysic.com
Cc: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20011220104756.0209ac38@0-mail-1.hpl.hp.com>

At 14:00 19/12/2001 +0000, Dave Beckett wrote:

>   <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://example.org/common">
>     ... shared properties here
>   </rdf:Description>
>
>   <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://example.org/tom">
>     <rdf:type rdf:resource="http://example.org/common"/>
>     .. more properties here ...
>   </rdf:Description>
>
>   <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://example/jane">
>     <rdf:type rdf:resource="http://example.org/common"/>
>     .. more properties here ...
>   </rdf:Description>

Might want to be a little careful here.  Given this graph, many 
implemenations if asked:

   what is the value of the sharedProperty of tom

will not give an answer given this modelling style.

Brian

Received on Thursday, 20 December 2001 09:51:16 UTC