- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 20:13:36 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Aaron Swartz <aswartz@upclink.com>
- cc: Sergey Melnik <melnik@db.stanford.edu>, <jos.deroo.jd@belgium.agfa.com>, <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>, <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Aaron Swartz wrote: > On Friday, June 15, 2001, at 06:10 PM, Sergey Melnik wrote: > > > I don't agree that anonymous nodes should be part of the abstract > > syntax, and would suggest to consider this issue when cleaning up the > > model. I disagree: it is critically important to distinguish between well known, public URI names for things and ad-hoc generated placeholder IDs that have been dreamt up by an RDF/XML parser. Unless the abstract syntax (or whatever we call it) maintains that distinction, we risk getting into a terrible muddle. > I tend to agree with this position. However, I would take it one > step further -- I believe that these "uniquely generated > resources" should have consistent, repeatably generated URIs. > That is, all parsers should assign the same genid to the same > resource. do you really mean this last claim? I suspect you meant that all parsers should assign a predictable genid given a common RDF/XML description mentioning a resource. 'all parsers should assign the same genid to the same resource' would be magic, since many times parsers won't have that information accessible. Dan
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