Re: Question about SHOULD in MT

>I'm not comfortable with the SHOULD in
>
>"A 'datatype-aware' RDF engine SHOULD be competent to recognize at 
>least the rdfs:XMLLiteral datatype and the set of all the XML
>Schema primitive datatypes."
>
>insofar as XML Schema datatypes are concerned.
>
>I think the SHOULD should only be limited to rdfs:XMLLiteral.

OK, I will make that change, unless anyone objects.

Pat

>
>I don't believe this is an editorial issue. I don't believe that the
>WG has agreed that this expectation should be placed on datatype
>savvy applications.
>
>I propose the following rewording:
>
>"A 'datatype-aware' RDF engine SHOULD be competent to recognize at 
>least the rdfs:XMLLiteral datatype. It MAY, and typically will,
>recognize other datatypes,
>such as the XML Schema built-in simple datatypes."

Fine, I'll use that.

Pat


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