Re: RDF-ISSUE-24 (Deprecate Containers): Should we deprecate RDF containers (Alt, Bag, Seq)? [Cleanup tasks]

On Apr 8, 2011, at 11:23 , Richard Cyganiak wrote:

> On 8 Apr 2011, at 10:05, Steve Harris wrote:
>>> rdf:Seq does have some merit, and some serious 'in the wild' usage.
>> 
>> Agreed. While far from perfect, in some situations it's preferable to RDF Lists.
> 
> Can you give examples where rdf:Seq is preferable to rdf:List?
> 

Although a pain even with rdf:Seq, it seems to be easier to reproduce the order of items after a SPARQL query if the data uses Seq rather than lists...

Ivan


> Cheers,
> Richard


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