- From: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 21:13:58 +0100
- To: RDF Core <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
Folks, At the last SW coordination group telecon the WEBONT folks indicated that removing daml:collection would be a problem for them. Consequently we agreed that the WEBONT chairs would solicit two volunteers from WEBONT to work with RDFCore to identify to figure out what they need and see if we can work out a solution. I believe that DanC and Jos volunteered. As I understand things, the key requirements are: o a compact and relatively conventient xml syntax o a way to represent a closed collection, i.e. our present understanding of issue * rdfms-seq-representation I understand it is not a requirement that the resulting RDF graph structure is a list. Of course I defer to the WEBONT folks to state their requirements; I'm saying this just to get things started. Amongst the possible solutions, the ones I can see are: o bless daml:collection as defined as part of RDF o WEBONT define a syntactic transform which turns whatever syntax they choose into regular rdf syntax before RDF sees it o RDFCORE defines a way of closing RDF's existing containers; Pat's suggestion of an end marker as that is closer to a list structure and doesn't involve integers (datatypes aghhhhhhhhhhhhhh!) o WEBONT defines a way of closing RDF's existing containers Other suggestions/comments? Brian
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