- From: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 08:29:56 +0100
- To: Pat Hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- CC: dehora <dehora@eircom.net>, w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
Pat Hayes wrote: >> I support this as a change in specification prose. >> Please note there is an RDF property named "predicate"; it's used in >> reification. Changing that is a different matter. > > > Yes, I just remembered this myself, and agree that would be a different > matter altogether. I think I now follow Brian's earlier message. The > idea would be that subject/predicate/object are grammatical categories > for the parts of a triple, but the actual thing indicated by the > predicate - the thingie in the middle - is called a property, right? That is my interpretation of current usage. So in an api, I have: stmt.getSubject() stmt.getPredicate() stmt.getObject() to deconstruct a statement. stmt.getResource does not make sense. Brian
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