Re: PROPOSAL to close ISSUE-40: no triples for empty elements

Sebastian Heath wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Richard Cyganiak
> <richard.cyganiak@deri.org> wrote:
>> Sebastian,
>>
>> On 5 Sep 2010, at 18:07, Sebastian Heath wrote:
>>> Somebody may well want to represent that the value of data as it came to
>>> them was "".
>> Okay, let's suspend disbelief for a second and assume someone *really* wants
>> to author a document with zero-length strings. They can still do it, using
>> @content="".
>>
> 
> And they can do it right now with '<span property="foo:bar"></span>'
> as well. As I said when this issue came up before, if you don't want a
> triple to be produced, don't put it in your RDFa.

This is also my view point - if this were Turtle or N3 would we even be 
having this discussion?

best,

nathan

Received on Monday, 6 September 2010 01:48:31 UTC