Re: syntactic restrictions on RDF graphs

I've added this as an issue to our issues list:

   http://www.w3.org/2000/03/rdf-tracking/#rdfms-duplicate-member-props

and will schedule its consiseration by the RDFCore WG as soon as possible.

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> > Of course, this paragraph goes against some later decisions, as it
> > explicitly forbids holes in collections, which are now explicitly allowed.
>
>Right; it seems to me that we've decided to allow this.
>But perhaps unconsciously.

As I recall this was a deliberate decision.  It was based on a view that 
the formal model in M&S was describing a given container has an abstract 
existence - the platonic container if you like, and that it was quite 
permissable for RDF graphs to represent partial knowledge of such a 
container, i.e. that containers are specifically not syntactic 
constructs.  The inclusion of this statement in the formal model section 
makes more sense when viewed in that light.

Brian