ISSUE-101: Last Call Comment: garbage collecting "useless" triples doesn't seem necessary and could hurt authors as they write RDFa
http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/track/issues/101 Raised by: Ben Adida On product: RDFa raised by Ben in [1]: """ I don't believe it is necessary, and it may be harmful, to garbage collect so-called "useless" triples in cases like: <div rel="foaf:knows"> <div rel="foaf:knows"> <div rel="foaf:knows"> ... </div> </div> </div> So what if someone writes useless triples? That's their intent, so let it be :) This step in the processing adds notable complexity to the parser rules. It also may make life difficult for authors who are progressively writing RDFa, building up a skeleton of bnodes before hanging properties onto them: they wouldn't see any triples at all until they add a @property, at which point a slew of triples would appear. There's a notable cost here, and questionable value. """ [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf/2008Mar/0242.html
