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Re: Proposed agenda item (no global datatyping)

From: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 16:32:38 +0100
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To: fmanola@mitre.org, Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Cc: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org 

At 10:18 29/08/2002 -0400, Frank Manola wrote:

>In the context of this discussion, I refer you to
>http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-rdfcore-wg/2002Aug/0167.html, in
>which Pat Hayes says:
>
> > >Is there an appealing use case for untidy literals that is not long
> > >range datatyping (aka implicit/global idiom)?
> > >
> > >Are we closing off any important extensibility paths if we go for
> > >tidy literals?
> >
> > With regards to this last point, yes. DAML and OIL and probably OWL
> > will need the flexibility of allowing (semantically) untidy literals,

Thanks for reminding us of this Frank.  There is also Jos's comment in

   http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-rdfcore-wg/2002Aug/0254.html

[[really? I haven't seen OWL supporting untidy literals]]

Could someone please elaborate on owl's requirement.

Brian
Received on Thursday, 29 August 2002 11:34:52 EDT

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