Re: Attempt for a List specification in RDFa (ISSUE-106)

Jeni, see my recent post; I've abandoned the idea if lists within lists. I only attempted it to be on a par with Turtle, but it resulted in an unreasonable implementation.

Gregg Kellogg
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On Sep 2, 2011, at 1:20 PM, "Jeni Tennison" <jeni@jenitennison.com> wrote:

> Gregg,
> 
> On 31 Aug 2011, at 23:40, Gregg Kellogg wrote:
>> Secondly, we don't seem to have a way to have a list containing lists. This could be supported by having both @collection and @member on the same element, which would change the algorithm to continue processing the child elements to create a list which becomes a member of the parent list. For example:
>> 
>> <li about="http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/isbn/9780262912423" typeof="bibo:Book">
>> <span property="dc:creator" member collection>
>>   <span property="dc:creator" member>Grigoris Antoniou</span> and
>>   <strong><span property="dc:creator" member>Frank van Harmelen</span></strong>
>> </span>
>> </li>
>> 
>> could then create:
>> 
>> <http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/isbn/9780262912423> dc:creator (("Grigoris Antoniou", "Frank van Harmelen")).
>> 
>> I think this would allow us to represent any type of collection that could be represented in Turtle, and would allow a simple representation for simple lists.
> 
> 
> I hate to ask this kind of question, because I know how annoying it is, but do you have an actual example in mind for when lists of lists would be useful, or is it just for completeness sake?
> 
> From the perspective of trying to narrow the gaps between microdata and RDFa, introducing a capability to RDFa to do lists-within-lists but not having the same capability in microdata is almost as bad as the current situation where microdata can support ordered content and RDFa can't.
> 
> The best outcome from that perspective would be if either they both only supported (easily) flat lists, or both supported nested lists. The only chance of getting a change into microdata to supported nested lists is if there's a good use case for them. I'm happy to make the argument for them but I'll need some ammunition.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jeni
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> Jeni Tennison
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