- From: Jonathan Borden <jborden@mediaone.net>
- Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 21:18:31 -0400
- To: "Dan Brickley" <danbri@w3.org>, <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
Dan Brickley wrote: > I'm still digesting Brian's note on anonymous nodes, so may yet change my > mind, but I have to say I've learned to live with anonymous nodes in > RDF. Having hacked around with various implementation strategies, I'm now > happy with anonymous nodes so long as we have strategies for identifying > those resources through description. > For example, a Person node might lack a URI in some chunk of RDF data, but > come with a description of their foo:personalMailbox or > bar:personalHomePage, either of which is sufficient to uniquely pick out > some individual. Yes. But isn't this the XPath/XPointer approach? e.g. /person[foo:personalMailnox='joe@somewhere.com'] /person[bar:personalHomePage='http://www.somewhere.com/~joe'] The point I am trying to make is exactly this: A URI can be constructed for an 'anonymous' resource using the XPointer fragment identifier bult from what is essentially an XPath query string, i.e. a description Jonathan Borden The Open Healthcare Group http://www.openhealth.org
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