Alan Ruttenberg wrote: > On Oct 5, 2007, at 3:05 PM, Tim Berners-Lee wrote: > >> :Joe :aunt [ is :Sally; age 78 ]. > > Does this generate 2 or 3 triples? At present, this generates three triples using a blank node. > Henry's note suggests that it should > generate 2, as he is using the notation as shorthand. > In other words, parsing this should not generate any blank nodes. > I would support that interpretation, which I think would need to be > documented. > It would be a shame to generate bnodes as a consequence of solely > wanting an abbreviation. If we change this interpretation we would get ourselves into a major incompatibility with SPARQL. That makes me nervous. Ivan > > -Alan > > On Oct 3, 2007, at 10:36 AM, Story Henry wrote: > >> :me foaf:knows [ owl:sameAs <http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/#me>; >> >> a foaf:Person; >> >> foaf:name "Dan Connolly" ] . >> >> >> That saves me having to look around the file for the info, and it also >> save me having to type a URL twice, which is more likely to cause a bug. >> >> >> If I don't do that I would have to write >> >> >> :me foaf:knows <http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/#me>. >> >> <http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/#me> a foaf:Person; >> >> foaf:name "Dan Connolly" . >> > -- Ivan Herman, W3C Semantic Web Activity Lead Home: http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/ PGP Key: http://www.ivan-herman.net/pgpkey.html FOAF: http://www.ivan-herman.net/foaf.rdf
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