RE: use/mention and reification: rdf:predicate/subject/object [was: RDF Abstract Syntax...]

At 02:02 PM 5/27/01 -0400, Jonathan Borden wrote:
>I would like to see another proposal to implement containers, particularly
>rdf:Seq. I, and numerous others, find the current syntactic contortion of
><rdf:li> -> rdf:_1 painful. The entire treatment of containers a mess badly
>in need of fixing.

I'm not going to argue with that...

>It turns out that lexical ordering already _has_ a place in RDF, my proposal
>is an attempt to fix the current problem.

... but I don't entirely agree with this.  Lexical ordering has a limited 
place in the XML serialization of RDF, and RDF (abstract syntax) may 
sometimes be called upon to represent lexical ordering of items.  But I 
regard one of the strengths of RDF (abstract syntax) to be that the 
information represented is independent of lexical ordering of RDF statements.

#g


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Graham Klyne
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