Re: RDF 2 Wishlist

Jie Bao wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org> wrote:
>> So, what should W3C standardize next in the area of RDF, if anything?
> 
> replace (with backward compatibility assurance) the use of plain
> literals with rdf:PlainLiteral [1] - this datatype is defined in the
> RDF namespace anyway.
> 
> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-text/

rdf:PlainLiteral is a hilarious bad idea

Don't use it for anything and definitely don't put it into core RDF.

If you want to know more - primarily because it cannot encode all RDF
plain/typed literals (it is incomplete just like RDF/XML) and has no rules
for escaping the characters used for separators (@, <, >).  Hilarious.

Dave