Re: Test cases for parseType="Literal"

> some approaches that have been suggested (that provide additional
> information e.g. xml:lang, and the parseType) are:

[...]

> 2. Literals are resources (same as #1?), e.g.:
>
>  <http://www.example.org> <http://example.org/property> 
> <data:text/xml;lang=en-US;well-formed XML> .

I think this should be called "Literals have URIs" as it is 
plainly clear that literals are resources.

> 4. Literals can be the subject of an triple (what would the N-Triples
>  for test002 be?)

This is true now to some extent since bNodes can be literals 
(since literals are resources) and bNodes can be the subject of 
a triple. But to simplify things we could just allow:

"foo" <...bar> <...baz> .

> Also, is there a requirement that the transformation from RDF/XML to
> N-Triples back to RDF/XML be lossless/round-tripable?

Surely, we've given up on that by now as plain things like:

<foo> <bar!*@&> <baz> .

and

<foo> <bar> _:a .
<baz> <bar> _:a .

aren't representable in RDF/XML but it seems silly to disallow 
them from RDF.

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