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:

1. 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)
2. meeting record: 2008-04-03 RDF-in-XHTML TF (from swick@w3.org on 2008-04-03)

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