- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 19:32:24 -0600
- To: Sergey Melnik <melnik@db.stanford.edu>
- Cc: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
>This is a side remark for those who like/need untidiness on literals for >certain purposes. Very diplomatically put. Untidy nodes are the kind of thing that are sold in plain unmarked wrappers, obviously. >In a tidy graph model, untidiness can be modeled using bNodes. > >For example, an untidy graph > >_:a --dc:Title--> "Big Bang" >_:b --my:book---> "Big Bang" >can be represented e.g. as a tidy graph > >_:a --dc:Title--> _:1 --rdf:value--> "Big Bang" > ^ > | >_:b --my:book---> _:2 --rdf:value------+ Oh well, sure, if you use an 'rdf:value' idiom, they can. BUt lets not argue about this. I now think that the MT can be made to work fine with tidy-literal graphs in any case, so I (for one) won't give you any more trouble about it. 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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