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report=I have two questions:

1. Why are redundant statements in the input RDF XML
present in the graph? Shouldn't these get distilled into
the same body of knowledge?

2. Why are the two syntactic variants of rdf:value and
property content data reflected differently in the graph?
Are these not merely syntactic variants of the same
graph structure?

Surely this latter behavior makes it very difficult to
write applications wishing to query an RDF graph -- as
they must then anticipate all such syntactic artifacts
remaining in the graph. Isn't this a bug? And if not, why?

Thanks,

Patrick Stickler
Nokia Research Center
patrick.stickler@nokia.com

RDF=<?xml version="1.0">
<?xml version="1.0"?<

<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
         xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"<

<rdf:Description rdf:about="http://www.abc.com/history"<
   <dc:creator<Ernesto Sabato</dc:creator<
   <dc:creator<Ernesto Sabato</dc:creator<
   <dc:creator rdf:value="Ernesto Sabato"/<
   <dc:creator rdf:value="Ernesto Sabato"/<
</rdf:Description<

</rdf:RDF<

Received on Saturday, 8 September 2001 05:22:35 UTC