- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 09:38:40 -0500
- To: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
- Cc: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
>On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Aaron Swartz wrote: > >> On Thursday, October 4, 2001, at 09:34 AM, Jeremy Carroll wrote: >> >> > I would prefer test1.nt to only have one line if they are >> > identical. The >> > graph is a set. >> > A comment explaining the deletion would then be helpful. >> >> Whoa, whoa, whoa, I don't think we ever agreed to this. It was >> my understanding the output was a bag (there wasn't harm in >> doing so), but could be interpreted as a set. >> >> When was this changed? > >The MT would give the same interpretation for equivalent arcs in a >multigraph, wouldn't it? Yes, in fact RDF graphs are multigraphs. However, that means that the MT works just as well if they are sets or bag. Bags is semantically harmless and puts a lighter burden in implementers, so I would vote for bag. Pat -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola, FL 32501 (850)202 4440 fax phayes@ai.uwf.edu http://www.coginst.uwf.edu/~phayes
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