- From: Graham Klyne <Graham.Klyne@MIMEsweeper.com>
- Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 22:19:25 +0000
- To: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Cc: "Jeremy Carroll" <jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com>, <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
At 09:50 PM 1/9/02 +0000, Brian McBride wrote:
>> - My proposed resolution is very simple, and hence makes reification
>>significantly more usable, and less of a barrier to RDF take-up.
>
>That is over egging things a bit. Do you really think the problems with
>reification lie in this obscure bit of syntax?
I tend to agree with Jeremy here. I think that being able to use the
rdf:ID= syntax consistently to identify the subject of the reification
quad, and to imply the presence of the quad statements in the graph, would
make reification much more comfortable to use.
Much criticism of reification has been about the triple-bloat. I expect
that implementations can optimize the internal storage of triples to
overcome this; Jeremy's proposal makes a similar optimization available in
the XML-serialized form.
#g
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