- From: Aaron Swartz <aswartz@upclink.com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 22:13:10 -0500
- To: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Cc: RDF Core <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
On Thursday, June 14, 2001, at 06:40 PM, Brian McBride wrote: >> Can you elaborate on why this is? I believe it is because of the >> functional container properties thing, which we as a working >> group have not yet made a decision on to my knowledge (do they >> only apply to containers or any resource?). > > What decision do you think the WG has to make? M&S says: > > For a single collection resource there may be at most one triple > whose predicate is any given element of Ord. > > Members of Ord are not constrained to only apply to containers. > There is no cardinality restriction stated for Ord in general. > No issue has been raised proposing such a constraint. Well then I'm raising an issue right now. M&S was silent on the use of these properties on non-container resources. Your proposal extends that ability, which, IMO, requires us to take a look at extending the same limitations of those properties in other environments. >> Especially since rdf:li is a >> special syntactic element -- I do not think we should allow it >> to be used in this way. > > I don't follow your reasoning there, but +1 for its an error. Yes, my position is that it is an error. -- [ "Aaron Swartz" ; <mailto:me@aaronsw.com> ; <http://www.aaronsw.com/> ]
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