add a triviallyTrue predicate from Dan Connolly on 2003-04-19 (www-rdf-comments@w3.org from April to June 2003) (original) (raw)

• From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
• Date: 19 Apr 2003 15:25:52 -0500
• To: www-rdf-comments@w3.org
• Message-Id: 1050783952.22215.2.camel@dirk.dm93.org

Consider adding to RDFS a triviallyTrue predicate; specification:

?S rdfs:triviallyTrue ?O.

is true for all ?S and ?O.

Rationale:

(1) jeremy's digital signature application needs to number bnodes

(2) folks are asking for all uses of rdfs:comment to be vacuously true. This would provide that functionality.

Options:

call it noop or... hmm... rdfs:comment really is poorly named.

-- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/

Received on Saturday, 19 April 2003 16:25:45 UTC