Re: Show me the money - (was Subjects as Literals)

On 1 Jul 2010, at 20:47, Jeremy Carroll wrote:

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>> On 1 Jul 2010, at 17:38, Jeremy Carroll wrote:
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>>> I have loads and loads of code, both open source and commercial that assumes throughout that a node in a subject position is not a literal, and a node in a predicate position is a URI node.
> On 7/1/2010 8:46 AM, Henry Story wrote:
>> but is that really correct? Because bnodes can be names for literals, and so you really do have
>> literals in subject positions.... No?
> It is really correct that I have loads and loads of such code.
> 
> This code conforms with the RDF Concepts and Abstract Syntax Recommendation 2004

So just as a matter of interest, imagine a new syntax came along that allowed literals in
subject position, could you not write a serialiser for it that turned 

"123" length 3 .

Into 

_:b owl:sameAs "123";
   length 3. 

? 

So that really you'd have to do no work at all?

Just wondering....

Henry

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> Jeremy
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