Re: N-Triples for empty collection? from Jos De_Roo on 2003-06-12 (www-rdf-interest@w3.org from June 2003)

From: Jos De_Roo <jos.deroo@agfa.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 11:18:20 +0200
To: joshuaa@microsoft.com
Cc: www-rdf-interest@w3.org, www-rdf-interest-request@w3.org
Message-ID: <OFAF51B386.EB9AC77C-ONC1256D43.00324164-C1256D43.00331DF6@agfa.be>

http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#nil denotes the
empty list so it's the latter.
the middle one is saying that the empty list (as an individual)
is a contributor (of course, you could have meant that ;-)
and the former is similar, although there could be other
contributors.

--
Jos De Roo, AGFA http://www.agfa.com/w3c/jdroo/

PS it's rdf:rest instead of rdf:last
   and the object of rdf:rest is a list


                                                                                                                          
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I am sure this is spec'd at
http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-syntax-grammar/#parseTypeCollectionPropertyElt,
but I am having trouble understanding how to store an empty collection.
Which of the below three n-triples examples is correct?  Or if none, what
would be correct for what I'm trying to do here?

Thanks!
Joshua

I am assuming something like:

http://www.foo.com/subject http://some.org/contributors _:genid1 .
_:genid1 http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type
http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#List .
_:genid1 http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#first
http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#nil .

The above is really what I want, but I could understand if there were some
other convention.  For example, the following would be understandable:

http://www.foo.com/subject http://some.org/contributors _:genid1 .
_:genid1 http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type
http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#List .
_:genid1 http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#first
http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#nil .
_:genid1 http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#last
http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#nil .

And so would (although annoying):

http://www.foo.com/subject http://some.org/contributors
http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#nil .

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