[Versa] Versa issue: Qname helper functions

[Michael Olson]

On Aug 12, 2005, at 10:26 PM, Chimezie Ogbuji wrote:

> On 8/12/05, Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji at fourthought.com> wrote:
>> http://lists.fourthought.com/pipermail/ril/2004-September/000358.html
>>
>> Litao Wei expressed an interest in a means for getting QNames rather
>> than full URIs in Versa results.  I think this is more of a
>> serialization than a query semantics issue, but I post it anyway so  
>> that
>> it gets tracked and handled.

May be, unless you are doing comparisions.  In either case it might be  
nice to have a method that goes both ways.

qname --> URI
URI --> qname

I could see the first making comparison functions easier to read and  
the second serialization easier to read.

>
> In a related issue, his problem with decouping rdf Container items
> would be addressed by a rdfList function:
>

I just wanted to point out that we need to be careful with terminology.  
  Lists and containers are different.  I think we need a set of  
functions to handle each.  I mappings from these two RDF data types to  
Sets or lists.

Mike

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