Re: cyclic rules

Doesn't this cause an infinite loop on cyclic rules when there are cycles in 
the RDF graph?

Consider, for example

schema:
   <FooShape> {
     :patron <FooShape>
   }

data:
   <Foo> :patron <Foo> .


peter


On 07/10/2014 11:32 AM, Solbrig, Harold R. wrote:
> Peter,
>
> Z cannot fully represent complete cycles. We have included a partially
> defined function (evalRule¹) in section 4 that is declared (informally) to
> be equivalent to evalRule.  The cycle described in the primer is realized
> by the evalTermReference
> (http://www.w3.org/Submission/2014/SUBM-shex-defn-20140602/#x1-170004.1).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Harold Solbrig
>
>
>
> On 7/10/14, 11:20 AM, "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfpschneider@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> The Shape Expressions 1.0 Primer,
>> http://www.w3.org/Submission/shex-primer/,
>> mentions cyclic rules, but there is no discussion of cyclic rules in the
>> Shape
>> Expressions 1.0 Definition, http://www.w3.org/Submission/shex-defn/.
>>
>> I was trying to puzzle through how cyclic rules would work.  It appears
>> that
>> they depend on how recursive definitions work in Z.  Can anyone tell me
>> how
>> recursive definitions work in Z, so that I don't have to do an in-depth
>> analysis of Z?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> peter
>>
>
>

Received on Thursday, 10 July 2014 19:24:34 UTC