Re: proposal to close ISSUE-77 (Re: [ALL} agenda telecon Oct 19)

On Oct 19, 2011, at 7:32 AM, Andy Seaborne wrote:

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> On 19/10/11 13:17, Sandro Hawke wrote:
>> On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 11:23 +0100, Andy Seaborne wrote:
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>>> I don't mind how what we do to rdf:Seq but if we say "use blank nodes
>>> for Seq" (which then avoids the merge issues) it is a step forward (Ian
>>> -- skolemized system generated URIs would count as well)
>> 
>> I can live with that, but I'm not sure why we'd say
>> dont-use-non-blank-nodes-for-Seq any stronger than dont-use-Seq.
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> It avoids merge problems as the bNodes should stop two rdf:_1's on the same resource.

Huh? How does that work? I mean, how do bnodes stop this happening? 

>>> Having gone back to the text around RDF Collections, some tidying up and
>>> bringing together would be helpful although the primer is in reasonable
>>> shape already.
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>> Oh, yeah, I'd also *love* to stop using the terms "collections" and
>> "containers" and just use "Seq" and "List".   I know "Collection" is
>> hard-coded into RDF/XML, but still.    Expecting people to remember
>> container=Seq and collection=List is a bit ... rude.    Especially if
>> we're calling g-boxes "Graph Containers", which I've already seen one of
>> us mis-write as "RDF Container".
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> +1 - Absolutely agree

+1 also

Pat

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> 	Andy
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