- From: Lynn Andrea Stein <lynn.stein@olin.edu>
- Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 15:28:12 -0400
- To: pat hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- CC: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>, Drew McDermott <drew.mcdermott@yale.edu>, www-rdf-logic@w3.org
Just to go on record.... pat hayes wrote: > Seems to me that all this can be done in one fairly simple way, by > allowing the subject and object of RDF triples to themselves be RDF > triples (not reifications of triples, but actual triples.) These > 'inner' triples are not asserted, and the 'verb' of the triple that > points to them provides the needed labelling. I think Pat and I are in agreement. Of course, one nit: > The distinction between > subject and object provides the distinction between subnesting and > nesting, much in the way that LISP uses CDRs to indicate list members > and encodes sublists in the CAR. If the verb is used to select the triple, you may find situations in which the selection is ambiguous. This is either a bug or a feature, depending (as always) on your perspective. Lynn
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