- From: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 19:30:06 +0100
- To: Sergey Melnik <melnik@db.stanford.edu>
- CC: guha@alpiri.com, rdf core <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
Sergey Melnik wrote: > With respect to this and other syntax issues, I'd like to remind of the > "roundtrip" test, which have been raised many times on RDF Interest: an > RDF tool must be able to parse, serialize, parse, serialize etc. without > loss of information, i.e., on every parse, exactly the same set of > statements is produced. Notice that after the first parse, rdf:ID will > be necessarity replaced by rdf:about, since the model does not > intrinsically capture the information about its origin. If <rdf:Description rdf:ID="foo"/> is defined to be equivalent to, i.e. represents the same triples as: <rdf:Description rdf:about="#foo"/> and the round tripping test is defined to be that XML/RDF before represents the same triples as the XML/RDF after (i.e. model equivalence) which I think is the test that you suggest, then this solution passes the round triping test. Brian
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