Re: RDF Collections

Do we want to completely rule out "circular" list constructions? 

Pat

On Oct 19, 2011, at 7:25 AM, Sandro Hawke wrote:

> On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 11:32 +0100, Andy Seaborne wrote:
>> 
>> 2/ (primer) defining "well-formed"
>>    (formally in RDF semantics). 
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> The 2004 Primer suggests well-formed-ness is whatever
> parsetype=Collection would give, which is on the right track, but you
> can't put literals in parsetype=Collection lists, so that's not the
> right definition.    Thus my reference to Turtle's list syntax.
> 
> The 2004 Semantics leaves out the notion that you can't have extraneous
> links (which also means you can't actually *say* rdf:type rdf:List for
> the nodes) for well-formedness, and it's hardly obvious.
> 
> I hadn't realized how close 'well-formed' already was to 'simple lists';
> so, yeah, maybe no one will have a problem with saying well-formed is
> what can be serialized in Turtle's list syntax (but I guess in the
> Semantics we have to say that without reference to Turtle).   That'd be
> good.    "Well-formed" has a fair amount of "you should do it this way"
> in the name.
> 
> Should we make some WellFormedList NotWellFormedList test cases?  Can
> you think of a way to do this without a new test type?  
> 
>   -- Sandro
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