- From: Antoine Zimmermann <antoine.zimmermann@emse.fr>
- Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 15:16:02 +0200
- To: public-rdf-wg@w3.org
ISSUE-98 is not trivial. My vote at the moment is for not changing the RDF semantics document beyond simple updates and having a separate document about dataset semantics. If you or Pat, or anyone else, has a proposal to make a unified semantics that does not require rewriting RDF Semantics completely, then please put it in the wiki and let us discuss it. AZ Le 13/09/2012 14:39, Richard Cyganiak a écrit : > On 13 Sep 2012, at 13:12, Andy Seaborne wrote: >> We would have to be careful to explain why we then don't have >> datasets-inside-datasets and "named datasets". > > It's a somewhat arbitrary restriction in the abstract syntax that > makes implementations simpler while still allowing the use cases we > care most about to be addressed. > >> It's not a block to the idea but keeping them separate does make it >> clearer where the boundary is. > > I think that keeping them separate would make the Semantics document > more complicated. The Semantics document is complicated enough as it > is. I think making it more complicated to account for a syntactic > restriction is not a good idea. If writing a semantics that is more > general than necessary for the abstract syntax turns out to be > simpler, then readers are better served by the simpler thing, IMO. > > A related case here is literals-as-subjects, which is a > well-motivated restriction that I never would want to remove, but I'd > prefer if the Semantics document would use a generalized notion of > RDF graphs that doesn't have the restriction, because that would > remove probably a page of pointless and hard-to-understand trickery > that is needed to work around the restriction. At least I personally > found that a barrier to understanding the document. > > Best, Richard > -- Antoine Zimmermann ISCOD / LSTI - Institut Henri Fayol École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Étienne 158 cours Fauriel 42023 Saint-Étienne Cedex 2 France Tél:+33(0)4 77 42 66 03 Fax:+33(0)4 77 42 66 66 http://zimmer.aprilfoolsreview.com/
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