Re: comments on rdf:text solicited

I can review it by the end of next week, but not earlier.


Best, Jos

Quoting Chris Welty <cawelty@gmail.com>:

>
>
> We need two reviewers for the draft from RIF.  Volunteers?
>
> -Chris
>
> Axel Polleres wrote:
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> find at
>> http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/InternationalizedStringSpec
>>
>> the prefinal version of the rdf:text datatype, now with   
>> Xquery/Xpath-style built-in functions added.
>>
>> I have added a rudimentary set of built-ins.
>> The most essential ones are those from seciton 4.1. to assemble and  
>>  disassemble rdf:text.
>>
>> The others (sections 4.2, 4.3) are mostly syntactic sugar, which is  
>>  shown by for most of them also a declared XQuery function being   
>> given to emulate them. Still, I think these are important enough to  
>>  be kept in the spec.
>>
>> An exception is  fn:matches-language-range which exposes language   
>> range matching as defined in RFC 4647 (part of BCP-47) as a   
>> built-in function.
>>
>> I think thee cover the most essential functions needed for rdf:text.
>>
>> The RIF versions of these will be defined in an update of DTB,   
>> along with examples how to emulate (min-/max-length, etc.) facets   
>> using these functions in RIF rules.
>>
>> Please comment until mid next week latest, since the OWL group   
>> really needs this document to be finished.
>>
>> Axel
>>
>>
>>
>
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