- From: Jeremy Carroll <jeremy@topquadrant.com>
- Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 08:04:51 -0700
- To: public-rdf-wg@w3.org
On 5/30/2011 4:29 PM, Richard Cyganiak wrote: > Ok, I think the sanest course of action is to set the bar high, require the tag to be valid, and note that previous versions didn't do so. > > PROPOSAL: Resolve ISSUE-64 by replacing the current text: > > [[ > Plain literals have a lexical form and optionally a language tag as defined by [RFC3066], normalized to lowercase. > ]] > > with: > > [[ > Plain literals have a lexical form and optionally a language tag as defined by [RFC5646]. The language tag, if present, MUST be well-formed according to section 2.2.9 of [RFC5646], and MUST be normalized to lowercase. > > NOTE: Earlier versions of RDF permitted tags that adhered to the generic tag/subtag syntax of language tags, but were not well-formed according to [RFC5646]. Such language tags do not conform to RDF 1.1. > ]] > Note that "valid" and "well-formed" are different concepts in RFC 5646, valid means well-formed, and the various subtags used are actually present in various registries. Jeremy
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