ISSUE-101
Last Call Comment: garbage collecting
- State:
- CLOSED
- Product:
- RDFa
- Raised by:
- Ben Adida
- Opened on:
- 2008-03-20
- Description:
raised by Ben in [1]: """ I don't believe it is necessary, and it may be harmful, to garbage collect so-called "useless" triples in cases like: <div rel="foaf:knows"> <div rel="foaf:knows"> <div rel="foaf:knows"> ... </div> </div> </div> So what if someone writes useless triples? That's their intent, so let it be :) This step in the processing adds notable complexity to the parser rules. It also may make life difficult for authors who are progressively writing RDFa, building up a skeleton of bnodes before hanging properties onto them: they wouldn't see any triples at all until they add a @property, at which point a slew of triples would appear. There's a notable cost here, and questionable value. """ [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf/2008Mar/0242.html
- Related emails:
- ISSUE-101: Last Call Comment: garbage collecting \\'useless\\' triples doesn\\'t seem necessary and could hurt authors as they write RDFa (from dean+cgi@w3.org on 2008-03-20)
- meeting record: 2008-04-03 RDF-in-XHTML TF (from swick@w3.org on 2008-04-03)
Related notes:
2008-04-03: further comments by Micah Dubinko: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf/2008Mar/0380.html
2008-04-10: RESOLVED to indeed keep these "useless triples" in http://www.w3.org/2008/04/03-rdfa-minutes.html
2008-04-11: RESOLUTION: Modify processing rules per ISSUE-101 to process and produce triples consisting of only bnodes -- http://www.w3.org/2008/04/03-rdfa-minutes.html#item03
2008-06-12: ACTION: Accept
2008-06-12: RESOLUTION: Modify processing rules to process and produce triples consisting of only bnodes.
2008-06-12: COMMENTER-RESPONSE: Accept
2008-06-16: CHANGE-TYPE: outstanding issue resolution (BenA had objected)