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In section 3 of the RDF Model & Syntax spec it talks about containers, e.g., rdf:Bag, rdf:Alt, and rdf:Seq. It gives an example where the model and syntax is shown for the following statement: "The students in course 6.001 are Amy, Tim, John, Mary, and Sue." The model for this statement shows a resource, /courses/6.001, having a property, students, whose value is an anonymous resource (i.e., a resource with no identifier). The anonymous resource has an rdf:type property whose value is rdf:Bag. It has a property rdf:_1 whose value is /Students/Amy. It has a property rdf:_2 whose value is /Students/Tim, etc. The spec shows the syntax for this model as: <rdf:RDF> <rdf:Description about="http://mycollege.edu/courses/6.001"> <s:students> <rdf:Bag> <rdf:li resource="http://mycollege.edu/students/Amy"/> <rdf:li resource="http://mycollege.edu/students/Tim"/> <rdf:li resource="http://mycollege.edu/students/John"/> <rdf:li resource="http://mycollege.edu/students/Mary"/> <rdf:li resource="http://mycollege.edu/students/Sue"/> </rdf:Bag> </s:students> </rdf:Description> </rdf:RDF> This confuses me. It does not seem to faithfully represent the model. Recall that the model says that resource, /courses/6.001, has a property, students, whose value is an *anonymous resource*. This syntax does not seem to be expressing that. This syntax says that the value is an rdf:Bag, not an anonymous resource. Here's how I would write the syntax: <rdf:RDF> <rdf:Description about="http://mycollege.edu/courses/6.001"> <s:students> <rdf:Description> <rdf:type resource="rdf:Bag"/> <rdf:li resource="http://mycollege.edu/students/Amy"/> <rdf:li resource="http://mycollege.edu/students/Tim"/> <rdf:li resource="http://mycollege.edu/students/John"/> <rdf:li resource="http://mycollege.edu/students/Mary"/> <rdf:li resource="http://mycollege.edu/students/Sue"/> </rdf:Bag> </s:students> </rdf:Description> </rdf:RDF> The way I read my version, the resource, /courses/6.001, has a property, students, whose value is an anonymous resource. The anonymous resource has a type property whose value is rdf:Bag, and so on. Isn't this a more faithful representation of the model? I must be not understanding something about container objects. Would someone please explain this to me? /Roger xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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