RE: [Gzz] RE: [ba-ohs-talk] Fenfire, RDF (re "Towards a Standard Graph-Based...")

[Alatalo Toni]

On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Danny Ayers wrote:

> > > Do you have an example of this? I'm having trouble thinking
> > where this might
> > A
> > |
> > B-A
> Still having trouble :-(

i'm sorry, that was a bad example -- i should have tried to explain.
i did try to construct a more meaningful one, which i try to repeat below.

otherwise there's a screenshot how a situation like this occurred to me
when i was working today, but it's not a very good one (yet). bu do feel
free to see http://an.org/fenfire/gzigzag.png and the difference to
gzigzag2.png (which is not there yet but i try to make it when have time
:)

fortunately, your question is helpful to answer:

> What does this offer that
> A-B
> doesn't? When might it be useful in practice?

if y and x axis are (sematically) different.

you could reconstruct it in rdf by saying:
A y B
B x A

(which is the order i do them in hierarchical trees in zzstructure,
when y and x are simply d.1 and d2. (using d.clone in the z-axis)

so in a rdf graph it might appear as:

A
|
|-x
|
B---A
  |
  y

where A is the same node in differenct places on one canvas. (m.o.t.?)

> Cheers,
> Danny.

wishfully,
~Toni