Re: ISSUE-34: extensibility of datatype support

The list of types is not closed off. There was a language 
that implied that the list is closed off, but it was removed 2 days ago.
There is nothing in the semantics or the syntax that requires closing-off.


	--michael  

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> ISSUE-34: extensibility of datatype support
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> http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/track/issues/34
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> Raised by: Jos de Bruijn
> On product: Technical Design
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> It is unclear to me why the list of datatypes is
> fixed. By fixing this list, every implementation needs to support all
> mentioned data types, and no other data types can be used in
> meaning-preserving fashion. I propose to make a list of datatypes which
> need to be supported by every RIF implementation (e.g. xsd:string,
> xsd:integer), and a list of additional data types which are recommended
> for use with RIF (e.g. xsd:gYearMonth). 
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Received on Tuesday, 25 September 2007 22:52:26 UTC