- From: Graham Klyne <GK@Dial.pipex.com>
- Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 07:01:09 +0100
- To: "Eve L. Maler" <Eve.Maler@east.sun.com>
- Cc: www-rdf-interest@w3.org, sergey Melnik <melnik@db.stanford.edu>, stefan Decker <stefan@db.stanford.edu>
At 11:31 AM 5/26/00 -0400, Eve L. Maler wrote: (Quoting someone else, so I guess this bit is reified...) >"I'd recommend to be very careful with such things. RDF spec has a >similar construct "aboutEach" which has been the subject of controversy >and misunderstanding. The spec demands that the "batch" process of >assigning the given relationship with every member of the bag (or in >your case, every element with the same label) takes place during >parsing, i.e. is transparent to the applications. However, a similar >syntactic element "aboutEachPrefix" can only be expressed at the model >level, i.e. using special relationships with predefined meaning." I'm not sure I believe the last sentence. I'd like to see a demonstration of expressing 'aboutXXX' at the model level. (This possibly plays into another thread about "lightweight reification" and "contexts", etc.) #g ------------ Graham Klyne (GK@ACM.ORG)
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