- From: Graham Klyne <gk-lists@dial.pipex.com>
- Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 17:52:23 +0000
- To: Pierre-Antoine CHAMPIN <champin@bat710.univ-lyon1.fr>
- Cc: guha@guha.com, pat hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>, www-rdf-logic@w3.org
At 06:08 PM 12/1/00 +0100, Pierre-Antoine CHAMPIN wrote: >Guha wrote: > > I have a simple (albeit potentially controversial) answer --- it is the > > range of the interpretation of RDF expressions. > >Controversial, indeed ! I'm not sure I dislike it, although :) > >But strictly speaking, if it is true, >then RDF describes Nodes and Arcs, not Resources... > >So, as I previously posed it, >I think the grapoh is the *interpretation* of the XML *syntax*, >but it is also a "higher level" *syntax*, whose interpretation is in the >world of resources (or entities, or both, I'm not sure)... That nicely encapsulates some thoughts I had on reading Guha's comment. #g (Who has always preferred to view the _graph_ as the primary _representation_ of an RDF description.) ------------------------------------------------------------ Graham Klyne Content Technologies Ltd. Strategic Research <http://www.mimesweeper.com> <Graham.Klyne@mimesweeper.com> ------------------------------------------------------------
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