- From: Jim Hendler <hendler@cs.umd.edu>
- Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 11:16:54 -0500
- To: Mike Dean <mdean@bbn.com>
- Cc: webont <www-webont-wg@w3.org>
At 7:42 -0800 2/7/03, Mike Dean wrote: > > and recommends use of XML comments instead - ugly, but I could live with) > >This is problematic in that XML comments aren't preserved in >the RDF graph. It precludes round-tripping of content. > > Mike no, no, no - that's my whole point! - things one wants in the graph go in RDFS:comment -- i.e. you need them to round trip. Things one adds as "comments" in the traditional programming language sense should be lost (i.e. when you roundtrip C code the comments are lost) and thus should be in XML comments instead! -- Professor James Hendler hendler@cs.umd.edu Director, Semantic Web and Agent Technologies 301-405-2696 Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Lab. 301-405-6707 (Fax) Univ of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 240-731-3822 (Cell) http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/hendler
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