Issue name: 020-BlankNodes

No discussion of blank nodes

Raised by:

Dave Beckett

Raised on:

2002-10-24

Raised in message:

#none

Target document section reference(s):

http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-rdf-concepts-20020829

Status:

Closed

Last updated:

2002-11-08

Owner:

Graham Klyne

Details

I was just looking for something to link to, but there doesn't seem
to be anything on blank nodes, or more specifically blank node
identifers.

The first mention of blank nods is in a sentence in passing and
there's nothing on graph-specific identifiers.  

I guess this a syntax thing?  Somebody needs to define what they are,
it shouldn't be the N-Triples spec!

I just grepped
  http://www.ninebynine.org/wip/RDF-concepts/Latest/rdf-concepts.html
and it seems pretty similar in this area.

History

2002-10-24: Raised

No description of bNodes or Node identifiers to reference.

2002-10-25: Assigned

Possible new text.

2002-10-24: Comment

Good point. I hadn't thought about this. I'll mull it over and see if there's anything useful I can say without treading on other specs. I think it's probably appropriate that the concepts document says something about the consequences of the model theory's treatment of bNodes -- in that respect it's not purely syntactic.

2002-11-04: Response

Added paragraph to section: 2.3.6 Representation of simple facts (note section numbers have changed since original comment.)

2002-11-08: Closed

See: http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-rdf-concepts-20021108/

See: http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-rdf-concepts-20021108/#section-URI-Vocabulary

Material incorporated into to publicly accessible document. (Note section number is now 2.3.2)