- From: Graham Klyne <GK@Dial.pipex.com>
- Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 01:51:39 +0100
- To: "McBride, Brian" <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Cc: RDF-list <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
At 06:25 PM 8/1/00 +0100, McBride, Brian wrote: >One of the properties I'm expecting an implementation to have is >the ability to round trip, i.e. to be able to serialize a model >to xml, read it back in through a parser and end up with exactly >the original model. I don't think I'm going to be able to >accomplish that if the parser is adding statements that were >not in the original model. > >And now, is Graham going to say - "That's not a reasonable >requirement."? :) Maybe its not, and its a style thing. One >would have to be careful with digital signature algorithms though >if a parser can modify a model on the way through. Hmmm... good question. I'm not entirely sure. At the very least, I'd say the round-trip should be idempotent. I'm not particularly in favour of a parser adding to a model (I distinguish here between "adding to" and "annotation" in that I don't think "annotations" would appear in a re-serialization, but rather would be used to reconstrict the original serialized form faithfully). #g ------------ Graham Klyne (GK@ACM.ORG)
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