Re: addressing requirements around daml:collection (rdfms-seq-representation)

On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 17:41, Pat Hayes wrote:
[...]
> >By 'ala daml:collection' I meant: including
> >the fact that first/rest are functional.
> >
> 
> Oh, I see.  But then that is a much bigger change/extension to RDF 
> than it seems, since now RDF has a way to encode functional 
> properties.

It's a big change, yes. I'm not sure I'm comfortable with it.

The longhand-OK option is acceptable to me, but I dunno
if it'll fly in the WebOnt WG and community.

The other options, i.e. techniques for enhancing
the <rdf:li> style collections to express closed
lists (a) have to be at least as powerful as first/rest
in order to get the job done (I think?), and (b) look uglier.

> That goes beyond just adding a different kind of 
> container. I would like to explore what the other implications of 
> that might be.

-- 
Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/

Received on Tuesday, 23 April 2002 23:38:45 UTC