- From: Dominik Tomaszuk <ddooss@wp.pl>
- Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 13:38:08 +0100
- To: Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net>
- CC: WebID Incubator Group WG <public-xg-webid@w3.org>
On 20.11.2011 13:22, Henry Story wrote: >>>>> - xsd:hexBinary >>>> +1 >>>> But I propose more readable and full-validate datatype based on xsd:string and restrictions to hex and "-" sign >>>> (...) >>> >>> And what does that bring you? Now you can't implement type inferencing easily in your rdf engine. With cert:hex or xsd:integer you >>> can have the rdf engine automatically convert any way of representing a cert:hex string into a BigInteger, and do immediate comparison using an ASK query. With strings you would have to do a lot more messing around in code. >> But this proposal is string datatype based. If RDF inference engine doesn't support regexp and OWL restriction - no problem it should use xsd:string. > > but any rdf engine supports xsd:hexBinary . and supports xsd:string that's why I give +1 for xsd:hexBinary and xsd:string (optional with restrictions). Domel
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