Re: ISSUE-22 Recursion - Status of Core SHACL Semantics draft

Le 13/11/2015 19:33, Peter F. Patel-Schneider a écrit :
> On 11/11/2015 07:50 PM, Arthur Ryman wrote:
> [...]
>> Iovka said that the draft is no longer being maintained. Her latest
>> version of the semantics of ShEx is given in [1]. I pointed out that I
>> had proposed a different approach to positive recursion. [2]
>>
>> We agreed to look at each others articles and decide how to proceed.
>>
>> [1] http://arxiv.org/abs/1510.05555
>> [2] http://arxiv.org/abs/1505.04972
> [...]
>
> I am continuing to look at [1].
>
>
>
> It appears to me that ShEx there is *not* built on top of RDF, as the notion
> of a graph there allows triples whose predicate is the inverse of a property.
>   This permits a different set of graphs than does RDF because the three graphs
> below are different
>
> 1/
> :a :p :c .
> :c ^:p :a .
>
> 2/
> :a :p :c .
>
> 3/
> :c ^:p :a .
>
> I am puzzled as to why this change was introduced.
This is not a change, just an abstraction on RDF graphs. Because 2/ and 
3/ and not abstraction of any correct RDF graph, they will never be 
considered.

>
> As well, there appears to be a single designated value for all blank nodes, so
> that it is not possible to distinguish between
>
> 4/
> :a :p _:b1 .
> :a :p _:b2 .
> _:b1 :p :c .
> _:b2 :p :d .
>
> and
>
> 5/
> :a :p _:b1 .
> :a :p _:b2 .
> _:b1 :p :c .
> _:b1 :p :d .
>
In the abstraction, nodes still have unique identifiers, and two blank 
nodes are not the same.  The 4/ and 5/ graphs above will be distinct, 
because in 4/ there will be two different nodes for _b1 and _b2, that 
are n_b1 and n_b2, respectively.  The fact that val(n_b1) = val(n_b2) = 
_b is not a problem, because in ShEx there is nothing to distinguish 
between the local ids of two blan knodes anyway.


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Iovka Boneva
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