Fwd: PlainLiteral spec, ruby, bidi, etc.

This should have gone to public-owl-comments in addition to
public-rdf-text; sorry.  Problem is located in front of
keyboard.  --cmsmcq


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> From: "C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" <cmsmcq@blackmesatech.com>
> Date: 3 June 2009 2:15:23 PM MDT
> To: public-rdf-text@w3.org
> Cc: "C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" <cmsmcq@blackmesatech.com>
> Subject: PlainLiteral spec, ruby, bidi, etc.
>
> I have now reviewed the introduction of the current draft
> of the PlainLiteral spec, and can record here with some
> satisfaction that the paragraph which currently reads
>
>    As with plain literals, this datatype can associate
>    language tags with unicode strings, but it does not
>    provide its own facilities for representing natural
>    language utterances. Unicode bidirectional control
>    characters [BIDI] may be used within these literals,
>    like all other unicode characters. (Richer,
>    XML-based representations such as XHTML[XHTML] and
>    Ruby annotations [RUBY] can be expressed using the
>    rdf:XMLLiteraldatatype.)
>
> seems to me to satisfy my comment at item (5) of
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-owl-comments/2009Apr/0052.html
> (email of 21 April 2009).  (Please don't change it -- wouldn't
> it be nice to be able to set a watch list of specific paragraphs
> of a spec?)
>
> I thank the responsible working groups and the editors for
> the effort they have put in to trying to resolve this issue
> and find wording that addresses my issue without raising
> other harder ones.
>
> With this, I believe that all of the issues I raised in April
> have been resolved.  I wish the Working Groups success with
> the spec.

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