On Thu, 23 May 2002, Aaron Swartz wrote: > On Thursday, May 23, 2002, at 07:36 AM, Seaborne, Andy wrote: > > > A precursor to better modelling is more bNodes - and a general > > enthusiasm to > > use them. I think people shy away from them at present which hurts data > > integration (amongst other things). > > Could you elaborate? I've always found bNodes a bad idea, since, among > other things, you can't refer to them and so I strongly recommend > against them. A bNode is a sub-part of an RDF description. Wanting to refer to the bNode (as against the thing it represents) is like wanting to refer to the " or ' characters around some XML attribute. I thought this thread had been done to death. It seems not :( Can't we talk about code and implementations and test suites instead? Dan -- mailto:danbri@w3.org http://www.w3.org/People/DanBri/Received on Thursday, 23 May 2002 17:25:50 GMT
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