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

Bijan Parsia wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

We can ask them the status of SCD and remind them that our need for this 
functionality has not gone away.

Jeremy