- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 20:00:33 -0500
- To: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>
- Cc: Axel Polleres <axel.polleres@deri.org>, public-rdf-text@w3.org
On May 21, 2009, at 7:39 PM, Sandro Hawke wrote: > >> http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes/RDFPlainLIteral.html > >> Please see the redraft I just posted a link to. That is exactly the >> idea: that there should be an institutionalized confusion between RDF >> Plain literals and rdf:PlainLIteral literals, in that the latter are >> declared syntactically illegal and the former treated just as being >> the latter, semantically. Put another way, current syntax is >> re-defined to have the latter semantics. This isnt strict RDF, it >> is a >> semantic extension; but its such a small and useful one that I bet it >> will instantly become a de facto standard, and OWL and RIF are >> already >> semantic extensions anyway. And it completely eliminates the >> interoperability problems. > > +1 I'm very happy with your draft. Nice work! > > One small caveat. The i18n paragraph was hammered out at considerable > length, with Addison Phillips and Michael Sperberg-McQueen. We should > probably keep it, maybe with a few words making it clear that this is > "just so you don't misunderstand" stuff, and that the issues are > exactly > the same as with RDF Plain Literals. I think the point is that folks > often misunderstand i18n and since we're in that territory, it's a > good > chance to point people in the right direction. OK with me. Pat > > -- Sandro > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32502 (850)291 0667 mobile phayesAT-SIGNihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
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