Re: Defining Arc?

>I am going through the editorial updates to the syntax WD and I got to:
>
>>  Does the RDF series need to define "arc"? The original RDF syntax says
>>  quite a lot: "directed labeled graphs (also called 'nodes and arcs
>>  diagrams')" and defines arc in its glossary as "A representation of a
>>  property in a graph form; specifically the edges in a directed labeled
>>  graph." The new Concepts and Syntax specs mention yet do not seem to
>>  define arc.
>-- http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-comments/2003JanMar/0419.html
>
>We do define node (link to editors' draft dfn):
>   http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/RDFCore/TR/WD-rdf-concepts-20030117/#dfn-node
>
>but not arc.  So can we talk about nodes & arcs pictures anymore? :)

Suggestion: we can talk about node and arc PICTURES. The pictures do 
have arcs in them. The graphs, however, don't.

Pat


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