- From: Gabe Beged-Dov <begeddov@jfinity.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 20:29:07 -0800
- To: Sergey Melnik <melnik@db.stanford.edu>
- CC: Bill de hÓra <dehora@acm.org>, RDF Interest Group <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
Sergey Melnik wrote: > > Bill de hÓra wrote: <snip /> > Actually, no special mechanism for that is necessary. In my opinion, > having a reified statement in a model that is not used as subject or > object of another statement is futile; this does not add any > information. If a reified statement is used as a resource in another > statement, it is accessible via API but is not contained in the given > model. According to my reading of the spec (section 6), the reified statement is guaranteed to be the object of at least one statement if coming from a processing of the RDF/XML syntax. It will be the referenced by the Bag representing the Description that its statement was contained in. > Sergey Gabe -- --------------------------- http://www.jfinity.com/gabe
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