Re: Requirements for a possible "RDF 2.0"

On Wednesday 20. January 2010 02:57:40 Jeremy Carroll wrote:
> Conceptually I think we could have units:kilometer being a datatype 
> whose value space is distances and whose lexical space is the same as 
> xsd:decimal, and its value space would (modulo rounding) be the same as 
> units:mile but disjoint from units:squareMeter ...

Yeah, that's an attractive option, but it has a shortcoming in that one may 
wish to express something without decimal precision, and expect to get an 
integer back from say a SPARQL endpoint.

I'd much prefer to treat units and datatypes as orthogonal issues,  I 
really think they are.

Cheers,

Kjetil
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Received on Wednesday, 20 January 2010 21:47:26 UTC