- From: Danny Ayers <danny666@virgilio.it>
- Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 11:40:09 +0100
- To: "ZHANG Jian Feng " <jeffzhang726@yahoo.com.cn>, <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
>Dear all, > Can a resource be a structure (not a collection)? In OO >model, there are atomic >objects and structured objects. Can resources and blank nodes be >structured object? Yes, but you have to bear in mind that the RDF model is not as close to the OO model as one might expect from the terminology. Rather than using explicitly defined, fixed OO-like structures, most structures will be specified using the relationships between resources (i.e. the properties). see the primer: http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-syntax-grammar/#section-Syntax-parsetype-Collection and for more detail: http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-primer/#containers >In fact, the real question is: waht resources and blank nodes are, >proxies of something >else or the representation of the things themselves? > Why there is no explicit description about this in rdf >specifications? Is the question too naive? The primer covers this quite a bit, but there's more explicit description in the model & theory doc at http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-mt/#urisandlit
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