RE: Again: Anonymous Resources

I see - effectively an ID at the XML syntax level (allowing serialisation of
graphs within a document) and not at the RDF model level (i.e. not an RDF
resource identifier).  Ok.

Regards

Lee

-----Original Message-----
From: Stefan Kokkelink [mailto:skokkeli@mathematik.uni-osnabrueck.de]
Sent: 08 March 2001 16:05
To: Lee Jonas
Cc: Aaron Swartz; RDF interest group
Subject: Re: Again: Anonymous Resources


Lee Jonas wrote:
...
> What would the rdf:anonymous_ID actually accomplish over rdf:ID?  If you
> give a name to something it is no longer nameless.

The interpretation is different.
An RDF parser should be allowed to *change* the name
by a one to one mapping in the first case. Of course it should not
be allowed to do this with URI's given by rdf:IDs.

For example the following 'RDF' would be
equivalent

<rdfs:Class rdf:ID="MyClass"> 
  <dc:creator>
    <rdf:Description rdf:anonymous_ID="1">
       <name>Stefan</name>
    </rdf:Description>
  </dc:creator>
</rdfs:Class>

<rdfs:Class rdf:ID="MyClass"> 
  <dc:creator>
    <rdf:Description rdf:anonymous_ID="2">
       <name>Stefan</name>
    </rdf:Description>
  </dc:creator>
</rdfs:Class>

since there is an obvious bijection ;-).


Greetings,
Stefan

Received on Thursday, 8 March 2001 12:10:06 UTC