Re: rdfms-graph: Food for thought

On Thursday, July 12, 2001, at 04:15  PM, pat hayes wrote:

> The issue is whether we want to say that an RDF graph cannot 
> contain two copies of the same triple, not what we interpret 
> those triples to be saying. I would urge that it would be 
> harmless to let them be bags, and insisting that they are sets 
> places an unnecessary burden on a parser (which would need to 
> remove all duplications whenever it merged two graphs), so let 
> them be bags.

I will defer to your experience on this issue -- if you think 
there's no harm than I don't see why we need the restriction.

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