comment on rdf:text: A Datatype for Internationalized Text

On May 12, during a joint meeting of the XML Query WG and the XSL WG, we 
discussed both rdf:text: A Datatype for Internationalized Text and the 
comment submitted by Michael Sperberg-McQueen [1].

We share the concern raised in Michael's first comment, labeled "Typo in 
two namespace names?". In section 2, Preliminaries, of your specification, 
we see:
 
        - the prefix name fn: stands for 
http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions#

In our Functions and Operators [2], in section 1.2, Namespaces and 
Prefixes, we say:

The URIs of the namespaces and the default prefixes associated with them 
are:

    * http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema for constructors -- associated with 
xs.
    * http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions for functions -- associated 
with fn.
    * http://www.w3.org/2005/xqt-errors -- associated with err.


                                                -- Andrew

[1] comments on http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-rdf-text-20090421/
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-owl-comments/2009Apr/0052.html

[2] XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators
http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/

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IBM
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