Re: aboutEachPrefix: what to do?

At 09:18 AM 9/13/00 -0400, Dan Brickley wrote:
[...]
> > I think that either:
> > (a) the functionality reasonably exists as part of a tool for gathering 
> RDF
> > statements, or
>
>I'm not sure quite what you mean here. Nor why the contrast with (b).
>
> > (b) can be modelled as an RDF property, rather than as part of the RDF 
> core
> > specification.

The distinction I had in mind was that in case (a), the matching is 
performed externally by some tool and never appears explicitly in an RDF 
model.  Rather, a model just contains statements resulting from application 
of such a tool.  This has the disadvantage that it cannot create 
descriptions applying to changes in (say) a web site after the tool is 
originally run.

I think we're broadly in understanding about case (b).  I do have mild 
reservations about using regexp here;  it feels like mixing up the layers 
(lexical and logical).  But I could probably be persuaded it's the 
only/reasonable way for some applications.

#g

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Graham Klyne
(GK@ACM.ORG)