- From: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 20:49:40 +0100
- To: "Peter P. Jones" <ppj@concept67.fsnet.co.uk>
- CC: Bob MacGregor <macgregor@ISI.EDU>, Graham Klyne <GK@ninebynine.org>, www-rdf-interest@w3.org
> That's a different point from the original aim of my question which > is why does the RDF model need blank nodes? > Jeremy Carroll spoke to that in a sense, but if there are never any > blank arcs in RDF, why not just make use of the arc labelling instead > of generating blank nodes? I often use, at least in theoretical work, effectively blank arcs, I just label them all with rdf:value or eg:prop. This then carries no information. If I try the same technique on blank nodes, I would end up with one node. The two cases are very different. Jeremy
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