Re: RDF-ISSUE-24 (Deprecate Containers): Should we deprecate RDF containers (Alt, Bag, Seq)? [Cleanup tasks]

On 2011-04-11, at 14:01, Steve Harris wrote:

> On 2011-04-08, at 10:23, Richard Cyganiak wrote:
> 
>> On 8 Apr 2011, at 10:05, Steve Harris wrote:
>>>> rdf:Seq does have some merit, and some serious 'in the wild' usage.
>>> 
>>> Agreed. While far from perfect, in some situations it's preferable to RDF Lists.
>> 
>> Can you give examples where rdf:Seq is preferable to rdf:List?
> 
> Serialising in RDF/XML / NTriples, accessing with SPARQL 1.0, referring to e.g. the 5th member.

Sorry, not RDF/XML, that has syntactic sugar for it.

You can add sparse vectors to the list though.

- Steve

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