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

On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 09:18, Pat Hayes wrote:
> >Can't we split responsibility here.
> >
> >RDF Core provides:
> >- rdf:parseType="collection"
> >- rdf:List, rdf:first, rdf:rest, rdf:nil
> >
> >WOWG
> >- provides functionality (i.e. uniqueness)
[...]
> >Jeremy
> >
> 
> Yes, this is what I thought (until yesterday) the proposal amounted 
> to.

OK, I like this better.

> I like this as it keeps RDF's hands clean but also lets WOWG do 
> what it wants to do. On the other hand, one could take the line that 
> if this is all that RDF is providing, why do *we* need to do it? I 
> mean, they could just use the daml:collection vocabulary, right?

They can't make RDF parsers turn daml:collection into first/rest
triples.

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

Received on Thursday, 2 May 2002 17:11:50 UTC