Re: Personal Straw Poll about XMLLiteral

On 14 Sep 2009, at 12:36, Bijan Parsia wrote:

> We have a lot of triplestore folks in the group. While unscientific,  
> it would at least give some idea of the feasibility of "fixing"  
> XMLLiteral.
>
> So,
>
> 1) Does your RDF/XML parser canonicalize rdf:XMLLiterals?
> 2) Does your NTriples/Turtle/other alt-syntax parser canonical  
> rdf:XMLLiterals?
> 3) Do you maintain the original syntax of your XMLLiterals, or only  
> retain the canonicalized form?
> 4) Would you object to changing the lexical space of rdf:XMLLiteral  
> to include non-canonicalized wellformed XML?
> 5) Would you object to changing the RDF/XML parsing behavior to not  
> canonicalize?
>
> The user version includes:
>
> 6) Would any of your applications break if the lexical space of  
> XMLLiteral were widened?
No

> 7) Would any of your applications break if the parsing of RDF/XML  
> didn't canonicalize?
No

Best,

Alex.

>
> Cheers,
> Bijan.
>
>

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Dr. Alexandre Passant
Digital Enterprise Research Institute
National University of Ireland, Galway
:me owl:sameAs <http://apassant.net/alex> .