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Subject: RE: On current literal pattern...


Also, line 10 has an extra space. It should be
10 =alice+tel$! ! (data:,+1-206-555-1212)
, not
10 =alice+tel$! ! (data:, +1-206-555-1212)

Kind regards,

Bill Barnhill
Booz Allen Hamilton - Belcamp,MD
1-443-924-0824 | barnhill_william@bah.com


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From: xdi@lists.oasis-open.org [xdi@lists.oasis-open.org] on behalf of Barnhill, William [USA] [barnhill_william@bah.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 9:09 AM
To: Michael Schwartz; Joseph Boyle
Cc: Yuriy Zabrovarnyy; OASIS - XDI TC; Cameron Hunt
Subject: [xdi] On current literal pattern...

Assume a graph contains result of adding the properties from the simple example in the most recent XDI Graph Patterns doc:

1 () () (=bob)
2 () () =bob
3 () () =alice
4 =bob () $!($uri)
5 =alice () $!(+tel)
6 =alice$!(+tel) () $!($t)
7 =alice +friend =bob
8 =bob$!($uri) ! (data:, http://xdi.example/com/=!0111.7af3.65d5.8cb7/)
9 =alice$!(+tel) ! (data:, +1-206-555-1212)
10 =alice$!(+tel)$!($t) ! (data:,2010-10-10T11:12:13Z)

Assume I want to traverse the graph to get all literal properties under =alice at any depth, a situation that could occur due to serialization, or processing for an XDI IDE.

Assume I want to do this solely by using graph operations, due to whatever algorithm I have.  In other words I can walk the graph and test equality of a node or edge's label against a specific label, but I can't use a REGEX or parse the label.  I think this is a reasonable assumption, and I think if we can't make it then we don't strictly have a *graph* model.

Can I still get all the literals by walking the tree if I follow these assumptions?

My concern is with the use of things like $!($uri) and $!(+tel).

As a result I propose the following pattern instead of those statements:
1 () () (=bob)
2 () () =bob
3 () () =alice
4 =bob () $uri
5 =bob$uri () $!
6 =alice () +tel
7 =alice+tel () $t
8 =alice+tel () $!
9 =alice+tel$t () $!
10 =alice +friend =bob
11 =bob$uri$! ! (data:, http://xdi.example/com/=!0111.7af3.65d5.8cb7/)
12 =alice+tel$! ! (data:, +1-206-555-1212)
13 =alice+tel$t$! ! (data:,2010-10-10T11:12:13Z)

Now I can find all literals under =alice by finding any walk from =alice to $! within the current graph.  This also seems easier to parse, both for a human reading it and a software agent.

Furthermore, I think we shouldn't use literals to represent a URI.  A URI can be represented as an XRI just by wrapping it in cross ref. So I'd also suggest changing the following lines:
4 =bob () $uri
5 =bob$uri () $!
11 =bob$uri$! ! (data:, http://xdi.example/com/=!0111.7af3.65d5.8cb7/)
  to ...
=bob $uri (http://xdi.example.com/=!0111.7af3.65d5.8cb7/)

The complete result becomes

1 () () (=bob)
2 () () =bob
3 () () =alice
4 =bob $uri (http://xdi.example.com/=!0111.7af3.65d5.8cb7)
5 =alice () +tel
6 =alice+tel () $t
7 =alice+tel () $!
8 =alice+tel$t () $!
9 =alice +friend =bob
10 =alice+tel$! ! (data:, +1-206-555-1212)
11 =alice+tel$t$! ! (data:,2010-10-10T11:12:13Z)

Note that I also changed the URI in 4 to have an authority ending in .com (was example/com/), and removed the trailing '/'.


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