- From: R.V.Guha <guha@guha.com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 15:19:25 -0700
- To: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- CC: Sergey Melnik <melnik@db.stanford.edu>, guha@alpiri.com, rdf core <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
Sorry for being slow, but on reconstruction, how does one disambiguate between <rdf:Description rdf:ID="#foo"/> and <rdf:Description rdf:about="##foo"/> guha Brian McBride wrote: > 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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