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RE: DATATYPES: mental dump.

From: Graham Klyne <Graham.Klyne@MIMEsweeper.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 09:31:16 +0000
Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20011113092920.03a2f470@joy.songbird.com>
To: Patrick.Stickler@nokia.com
Cc: connolly@w3.org, pfps@research.bell-labs.com, phayes@ai.uwf.edu, w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org 
At 10:14 PM 11/12/01 +0200, Patrick.Stickler@nokia.com wrote:
>It's one thing for RDF based *applications* to support and
>utilized XML Schema simple data types and their lexical and
>value spaces, but IMO RDF should itself be completely neutral
>to any particular data type scheme.

I agree.

My reading of what Peter/Dan have been saying is that XML schema datatypes 
should be primus inter pares for data types in RDF, not somehow embedded in 
the core of RDF.  (Which I think is fine.)

#g


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