- From: pat hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 23:38:37 -0700
- To: Frank Manola <fmanola@mitre.org>
- Cc: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
>Argh! I hope the Primer isn't misleading on this question, because >I don't think your last sentence is accurate. What I try to say is >that rdf:ID provides a way of indicating that, in addition to >generating the usual triple, a reification of that triple with a >specific URIref (generated from the rdf:ID value) is to be generated >as well. It doesn't (I don't think) "attach a URI reference to a >triple in an RDF/XML document". Well, isn't that attachment done by the fact of the URI appearing in the rdf:ID in the document in question? But OK, I could rephrase it thus: (In the RDF/XML syntax described in RDF/XML Syntax Specification (Revised) [RDF-SYNTAX] the use of rdf:Id with a URI reference as value creates a reification of the enclosed triple, with that URI reference as the reified triple.) Would that be better? Its more awkward but maybe more accurate. Pat >--Frank > >pat hayes wrote: > >> >>After reading Frank's Primer text, I have changed some text in the >>reification section 3.2.1 of Semantics from this: >> >>"Although RDF applications may use reification to refer to triple >>tokens in RDF documents, the connection between the document and >>its reification must be maintained by some means external to RDF. >>RDF syntax provides no means to 'connect' an RDF triple to its >>reification. " >> >>to this: >> >>"Although RDF applications may use reification to refer to triple >>tokens in RDF documents, the connection between the document and >>its reification must be maintained by some means external to the >>RDF graph syntax. (The RDF/XML syntax described in RDF/XML Syntax >>Specification (Revised) [RDF-SYNTAX] provides rdf:Id to attach a >>URI reference to a triple in an RDF/XML document, and create the >>corresponding reification.) " >> >>I hope the WG does not object to this; I think the rather sharp >>negative was misleading. >> >>Pat >> > > >-- >Frank Manola The MITRE Corporation >202 Burlington Road, MS A345 Bedford, MA 01730-1420 >mailto:fmanola@mitre.org voice: 781-271-8147 FAX: 781-271-875 -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32501 (850)291 0667 cell phayes@ihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
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