Re: basic question on string literals

Rephrase: What would we LIKE the answer to be? (SInce we, the WG, have the <eerie music>POWER</eerie music> to make it be the way we want it to be.)

Pat

On May 18, 2011, at 10:00 AM, Peter Frederick Patel-Schneider wrote:

> I'm not sure that "be considered to have" means here.
> 
> peter
> 
> PS:  "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is."
> 
> 
> From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
> Subject: basic question on string literals
> Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 09:01:04 -0500
> 
>> I think the WG needs to take a single, binding decision on the following
>> question, before we can settle the issue about string literals.
>> 
>> Ignoring language tags for the moment, should a plain, untyped string
>> used as a literal in RDF be considered to have the type xsd:string, or
>> the type rdf:PlainLiteral, or some other type, or to not have a type at
>> all?
>> 
>> Pat
> 

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