Re: Simplification of scopes section (see also ISSUE-148)

On 05/12/2016 08:22 PM, Karen Coyle wrote:
> 
> 
> On 5/12/16 5:51 PM, Holger Knublauch wrote:
>> I agree the editorial arrangement of these subsections is unhelpful, and
>> I have aligned the nesting with this commit:
>>
>> https://github.com/w3c/data-shapes/commit/fd044c834960c791cc1740509224057d03057567
>>
>>
>>
>> The naming and syntax issue had been raised before as
>>
>> https://www.w3.org/2014/data-shapes/track/issues/148
>>
>> I would find it very unfortunate if we switched to another syntax that
>> hard-codes these few scope types and then requires a completely
>> different syntax for the general scope mechanism of the extension
>> mechanism. Such decisions drive up implementation costs significantly,
>> and also require the reader of SHACL to look at a rather arbitrary
>> collection of predicates.
> 
> Yet the current design takes a very different approach between node and
> class-based scopes, which are "hard coded", and the remaining scopes, which
> are subclasses of sh:Shape. We have:
> 
> ex:PersonShape
>     a sh:Shape ;
>     sh:scopeNode ex:Alice .
> 
> and
> 
> ex:PropertyScopeExampleShape
>     a sh:Shape ;
>     sh:scope [
>         a sh:PropertyScope ;
>         sh:predicate ex:knows ;
>     ] .
> 
> So the inconsistency is already there, to the inconvenience of the user.
> 
>  Also, what would be the object of ex:MyShape
>> sh:allObjectsScope triples?
> 
> I'd like to think more about the "all objects" "all subjects" -- I'm having
> trouble thinking of them as scopes in this same sense; I almost think they'd
> fit into the constraints functional area. Do we have use cases for those? that
> would help.
> 
> Thanks,
> kc

It could be just like sh:closed, i.e., it takes true as an object.

peter

Received on Friday, 13 May 2016 14:01:09 UTC