- From: Sean B. Palmer <sean@mysterylights.com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 20:19:45 -0000
- To: <timbl@w3.org>, "Sandro Hawke" <sandro@w3.org>
- Cc: <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
> [...] When you need one (eg for a [ ] construct), you
> can't just make one ("_:g57"), because the user might
> use the same identifier ("_:g57") later in the document.
I just change the one later in the document: building up a dictionary
of bNode labels used or generated so far within the document, and then
having a function which checks to see if the label has already been
interned, generating a new one with a random string generator
repeatedly until it finds a spare label.
Your suggestion is better though, because people will most likely want
their [] generated bNode labels to be any old thing, but may have
chosen their _:XXX node labels as a mnemonic. I don't think that
reserving new _:_XXX labels is a good idea; I would always advocate
making things easy for the user rather than the programmer (although
it appears that there is a lot of overlap!).
--
Kindest Regards,
Sean B. Palmer
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