comparison with JSON schema

It's been a year so I thought I'd look back through JSON schema to see what it can do that ShEx can't:

  1 in-document declaration of ID, รก la xsi:schemaLocation

  2 format "macros" for date-time, email, hostname, ipv4, ipv6, uri (RFC3986)

  3 multipleOf -- tested number must be multiple of argument.

  4 {min,max}Properties -- control how man total properties are expected for an object.

  5 dependencies -- kind of like a less expressive variant of FHIR discriminators, dependencies provides conditional dependencies. An RDF analogy would be
      dependencies: { "foaf:givenName": [ "foaf:familyName" ],
                      "foaf:familyName": [ "foaf:givenName" ] }
    Note that there's no else as in
      { foaf:givenName, foaf:familyName | foaf:name }

    Could a unidirectional depenency like:
      dependencies: { "foaf:givenName": [ "foaf:familyName" ] }
    be represented like:
      "anyOf" [
        { "requiredProperties" [ "foaf:givenName", "foaf:familyName" ] },
        { "requiredProperties" [  ] },
      ]
    or in ShEx like:?
      { foaf:givenName, foaf:familyName | foaf:familyName? }

  6 uniqueItems -- entries in an array are unique.

  7 default -- default value for a missing property (This can go in the ShEx grammar with an "=" token before it).


Of course there's stuff like "type":"object" and "type":"array" that simply doesn't apply to the RDF data model.
-- 
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Received on Monday, 2 November 2015 21:33:15 UTC