- From: <Patrick.Stickler@nokia.com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 11:36:40 +0300
- To: tpassin@home.com, www-rdf-logic@w3.org
- Cc: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
> Indeed, if you think of a set of triples as being rows in a relational > database table, then ask what would be the primary key of > that table? The > only sensible answer is that the primary key must be the > combination of the > subject and predicate. The "semantics" could also be > considered to be a > kind of "business rule", to use an expression from a different domain. > Taking this relational database viewpoint, each node must > necessarily have a > value (or label), but it may be that a particular > implementation could hide > the label, or exclude it from serialization. Exactly. This is what I was trying to get at with my examples that autogenerated identities of "anonymous" nodes based on their "context" made up of the subject and predicate. Having the same consistent identity makes comparison of values and enforcement of constraints much more straight forward. I think you explained it better, though, than I did. Cheers, Patrick -- Patrick Stickler Phone: +358 3 356 0209 Senior Research Scientist Mobile: +358 50 483 9453 Software Technology Laboratory Fax: +358 7180 35409 Nokia Research Center Video: +358 3 356 0209 / 4227 Visiokatu 1, 33720 Tampere, Finland Email: patrick.stickler@nokia.com
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