Re: proposals for Lists and Seq (ISSUE-77)

On 20 October 2011 14:47, Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-10-20 at 13:21 +0200, Dan Brickley wrote:
>> On 20 October 2011 13:13, Steve Harris <steve.harris@garlik.com> wrote:
>> > I wouldn't be comfortable with marking Seq as "archaic" or similar unless there's a viable alternative, and I don't think List counts.
>>
>> Me neither.  Nor "quaint", "twee", "retro" or "regrettable". It's just
>> what it is, with no great mystery or confusion.
>
> Actually, there's a great deal of confusion.  Please do explain -- in
> one sentence for newbies -- why we have both Seq and List, and with Seq
> better supported in RDF/XML and List better supported in Turtle, and how
> someone should decide which to use.

Sure - good idea.

"The first RDF/XML specifications used a class rdf:Seq with numbered
relationships to describe ordered lists; however when the later OWL WG
were arm-twisted by W3C staff into using RDF as the syntax to define
their language, they persuaded the RDF Core group (and others, e.g.
N3/Turtle) to adopt a new list mechanism that used a linked list style
that made it easier to tell when a list description was incomplete, at
the cost of extra triples."

> (To put it differently, I think it's quite harmful to the RDF to not deprecate Seq.)

I guess you're not paying by the triple for storage?

cheers,

Dan

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