Re: Cursors in RDF (was Re: [Gzz] Structure proposal: RDF (+Xu))

[Tuomas Lukka]

On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 03:27:04PM +0100, Benja Fallenstein wrote:
> Benja Fallenstein wrote:
> >There's a cursor position, the 
> >focused node, shown in the middle of the screen. [...]
> >In addition to the focus, we keep a selected node. This is shown 
> >directly right of the focused note (if connected poswards) or directly 
> >left (if connected negwards).
> 
> Just noted that literals make this a little more complicated. We want to 
> be able to focus literal nodes, yet we cannot make a link to them, 
> because they're without identity. From the semantics perspective, this 
> makes sense, but for editing, it makes things yet a little more difficult.
> 
> Have to think about this. Possibly saying "the 'age' property literal of 
> person X is accursed" would be right, but there may be two such 
> literals... hmmmm.

Benja: reification to the rescue, I should think... ;)

        Tuomas