- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 10:47:10 -0500 (EST)
- To: Gerard Maas <gerard.maas@alcatel.be>
- cc: RDF-list <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
Cycles are fine, even encouraged. The specialisation properties (subClassOf, subPropertyOf) aren't supposed to loop, but that's all the spec says w.r.t. restricting cycles. --dan On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Gerard Maas wrote: > Hello!, > > After working with RDF for some time, I find that it is not very clear > if cycles in the RDF graph are allowed or not. The RDF Data spec. does > not say anything about it (or I don't understand it as such), and the > restrictions in the RDF Schema spec, about of subPropertyof and > subClassof do not really constrain the presence of a loop in the a RDF > description. > > Could somebody bring some light to my cloudy head?? > > Thanks, > > Gerard. >
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