Re: blank nodes question

> That's a different point from the original aim of my question which 
> is why does the RDF model need blank nodes?
> Jeremy Carroll spoke to that in a sense, but if there are never any 
> blank arcs in RDF, why not just make use of the arc labelling instead 
> of generating blank nodes?


I often use, at least in theoretical work, effectively blank arcs, I just 
label them all with rdf:value or eg:prop. This then carries no information.

If I try the same technique on blank nodes, I would end up with one node.

The two cases are very different.

Jeremy