- From: Nathan <nathan@webr3.org>
- Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 17:39:10 +0000
- To: Andy Seaborne <andy.seaborne@epimorphics.com>
- CC: RDF WG <public-rdf-wg@w3.org>
Andy Seaborne wrote: > On 01/03/11 17:23, Nathan wrote: >> Andy Seaborne wrote: >>> On 01/03/11 16:41, Nathan wrote: >>>> actually ^ may be better.. such that >>>> >>>> :a :b :c . >>>> >>>> could be written as: >>>> >>>> :c ^:b :a . >>>> >>>> meaning >>>> >>>> :c [ owl:inverseOf :b ] :a . >>> >>> meaning there is a there is bnode in the predicate position. ... >>> >>> SPARQL has: >>> >>> :c ^:b :a . >>> >>> meaning >>> >>> :a :b :c >>> >>> reverses subject and object. The matching process really does swap >>> subject and object. >>> >>> http://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-query/#propertypaths >> >> wouldn't that require subjects as literals? > > Yes. hmm, this is probably a fruitless conversation then, because we can't change the RDF semantics, and the choices are bnode predicates or literal subjects to allow this (and to align w/ sparql I guess..). best, nathan
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