- From: Eric Jain <Eric.Jain@isb-sib.ch>
- Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 11:03:11 +0200
- To: Lars Marius Garshol <larsga@ontopia.net>, rdf-interest <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
Lars Marius Garshol wrote: > Well, leaving RDF/XML aside, it doesn't seem very difficult to create > an XML syntax where the reification is done without having to create > global identifiers for the statements. For example: > > <bogus-quad-syntax> > <statement subject="a" property="b" object="c"> > <statement property="source" object="x"/> > <!-- subject is implicitly parent statement --> > </statement> > </bogus-quad-syntax> It would indeed be nice if there was a way to avoid global identifiers for statements, but all syntaxes that I have seen so far that do so end up being rather verbose, i.e. using even more disk space than standard RDF/XML (unless perhaps you need to reify every single statement).
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