On Thursday, July 12, 2001, at 04:25 PM, pat hayes wrote: >> A literal is a resource representing the literal -- the string. > > Sorry, I can't follow this (in fact, I can't even parse it :-). > Do you mean a literal is a resource that represents *itself* ? Yes, I think so. Sorry if I was confusing. > Can you expand on what you mean a little more, maybe with a > simple example? Thanks. <data:,foo> merely represents the characters 'f', 'o', and 'o' in order. It does not represent a concept, thing, etc. It means nothing more than those three characters. Does that make more sense? -- "Aaron Swartz" | The Semantic Web <mailto:me@aaronsw.com> | <http://logicerror.com/semanticWeb-long> <http://www.aaronsw.com/> | i'm working to make it happenReceived on Thursday, 12 July 2001 18:04:49 EDT
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