Re: [Gzz] RDF and literals

[Benja Fallenstein]

Hei Matti!

Matti Katila wrote:
> Can someone explain me the relationship with RDF's Object(literal) and 
> zz cell's enfilade?

I'll try.

> In zz/xu all was clear since you did implement the structure and cells 
> actually didn't have anything like literals. Cell's container was actually 
> a pointer to an enfilade. Data was in mediaserver until now when data is 
> in literal and in storm? Confusing.

Ok, first of all: Everything will be in real RDF, i.e. triples of 
URIrefs, anonymous nodes, and literals. Xu storage will be built *on top 
of that*.

So we can have a literal with the following content (I'm making the XML 
tags up here):

    <alph:text uri="storm:block:482sanl3w24trg2" start="4" end="112"/>
    <alph:text uri="storm:block:21354sfdaay3244" start="43" end="148"/>

This is the string the literal contains.

Alph ('xustorm') will interpret this as an enfilade. It will read the 
Storm blocks referenced and take the Xanalogical data from there.

On the other hand, we will also be able to deal with literals like the 
following:

    2003-03-03T12:14:30Z

This represents a date in non-Xanalogical format.

We may show the date to a user as "3.3.03"-- and similarly, we may show 
the enfilade to a user as the text it contains.

Clearer now?

- Benja