- From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 18:01:11 +0100 (BST)
- To: Patrick Stickler <patrick.stickler@nokia.com>
- cc: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com>, RDF Core <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Patrick Stickler wrote: > > On 2002-06-26 14:19, "ext Jeremy Carroll" <jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com> wrote: > > > > > At the f2f one of the postponed issues that I wished to advocate reopening > > was: > > > > http://www.w3.org/2000/03/rdf-tracking/#rdfms-syntax-incomplete > > > > In particular, given the amount of change we have made I think a small change > > to > > rectify the bnode serialization problem should be considered. > > > > However we were out of time, and so I have decided to raise this by e-mail. > > > > This is primarily motivated for me by Jena development. > > Within Jena we have repeated user requirement to enable round-tripping. > > > > e.g. one of our summer students yesterday said words like: "we use N-triple as > > our transport becuase bNodes are important." > > > > Since we are not proposing N-triple as a standard, we do have some obligation > > to > > make RDF/XML useable. > > > > I propose that we should modify the RDF/XML syntax to permit bNode labels > > "_:foo" wherever we currently permit URI refs. > > If we go this route, I propose we use UUIDs to ensure against > accidental collisions between systems or sessions. No! That would make people think they're just some kind of globally unique URI thing. The more inter-file collision between these, the better, I think. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk ...You're visualising the _duck_ taped over my _mouth_..?
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