RE: Response to Andy Seaborne's comments on rdf:text

Jie Bao wrote:
> Dear Andy Seaborne.
> 
> Thank you for your response. I incorporated them in the wiki-version
> of the rdf:text document. The version is at
> * http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/index.php?title=InternationalizedStringSpec&oldid=18720


We have reviewed the document with respect to the changes we suggested - thank you for incorporating them.

The use of "existing" in section 3 does not seem to add anything.
Indeed, any future serialization that has built-in language tagging
would presumable also use the usual RDF form.


As we are agreed on the intent of the abbreviation of rdf:text, we suggest that adding an explicit statement about the intent would be helpful: suggestion:

Sec 3.2:
"""
The effect of these abbreviations is that there will be no occurrence of
an RDF literal with datatype "rdf:text" in RDF generated by an OWL 2 or RIF
processor. This maximises compatibility with RDF toolsets.
"""

This would be especially helpful because in the RDF Syntax specification it says, referring to the rdf:namespace:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-rdf-syntax-grammar-20040210/#section-Namespace
5.1 The RDF Namespace and Vocabulary
"""
Any other names are not defined and SHOULD generate a warning when
encountered, but should otherwise behave normally.
"""

 Andy

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Received on Monday, 16 March 2009 21:46:58 UTC