RE: Primer synch with other documents

Going on-list ....

Dave:
> I'd stick it in 2.3.2 since it is there where you first mention
> "Blank".   Identification of distinct but blank nodes deserves to go
> here.  Introducing a term for syntax-specific identifiers for such
> blank nodes could be in another doc, but I expect we all want to talk
> about them since otherwise we say things like:
>   nodes are [URI refs] or [Literals] or <nothing to point at here>
>
> I can live with defining the term blank node identifiers per-syntax;
> it'll just have to be done twice for rdf/xml and n-triples, and again
> in other docs?

I am looking at this para and the latest editors version of concepts:

http://sealpc09.cnuce.cnr.it/jeremy/RDF-concepts/2002-11-05/rdf-concepts.htm
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(I currently have the lock).

Graham defines "local node identifier" (I prefer "blank node identifier", I
will chat with him as to why the change).

I carefully avoid a constructive definition of blank node, a definition just
gets in the way.
[[
The blank nodes of an RDF graph are those nodes that are not RDF literals or
RDF URI References.
]]
is what I say; so that as far as the abstract syntax is concerned my mum can
be a subject or an object of a triple in a graph. Then she is a node in the
graph, and by virtue of not being a literal or a URIref she is a blank node.
All that means is that her internal structure is not relevant to RDF.

Jeremy

Received on Tuesday, 5 November 2002 05:25:53 UTC