- From: James Cheney <jcheney@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 14:17:32 +0100
- To: Provenance Working Group <public-prov-wg@w3.org>
This has been addressed by editorial changes to PROV-N, using semicolons to separate the optional id. This decreases ambiguity so I'm closing the issue. --James On Apr 19, 2012, at 3:12 PM, Provenance Working Group Issue Tracker wrote: > PROV-ISSUE-353 (optional-id-syntactic-marker): Introduce a syntactic marker for when optional id is expressed [prov-n] > > http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/track/issues/353 > > Raised by: James Cheney > On product: prov-n > > > Implement rule for optional first argument > > - id is at the beginning and followed by a different symbol (say, semicolon) if present, to make it trivial to see whether there's an id present; > > > Another possibility could be to prefix the id argument with a special character such as @ in order to make its special role as the optional first-argument identifier clear: > > wasGeneratedBy(@id,e,a,-) > wasGeneratedBy(e,a,-) > > instead of > wasGeneratedBy(id, e,a,-) > wasGeneratedBy(e,a,-) > > > > > -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
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