Re: facets, XSD, SCD, external datatypes (was Re: A brief primer on Qnames and URIs)

On 15 Nov 2007, at 12:49, Jeremy Carroll wrote:
[snip]
> With Peter's e-mail, I am confident that we can have:
>
> - in-line XSD datatypes with our own syntax
> - in-line XSD datatypes using their syntax (but probably not in RDF/ 
> XML; the xml literals in RDF/XML are defined via exclusive XML  
> Canonicalization, that is not compatabilte with shipping XML Schema  
> fragments)
> - external references to XSD datatypes with an explicit id attribute
>   [Hence allowing an ontology to be shipped in two files, one  
> containing all the datatypes]
>
> The only missing desiderata was external references to arbitrary  
> XSD datatypes, which does depend on XML Schema's SCD doc.
> I personally think we should be prepared to cut our losses at that  
> point.

I'm happy to cut it there. This would be a great improvement on the  
status quo.

Cheers,
Bijan.