Re: "meaningless terms" verbage for Primer

On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Patrick Stickler wrote:

> > I'm still not convinced that "10"@en^^xsd:integer and
> > "10"@fr^^xsd:integer would get treated the same way by all application
> > programmers;
>
> Well, it depends on what you mean by "treated".
>
> If they're taken to denote different values, then that's a bug
> in the application, plain and simple.
>
> However, the language tag might be used to filter some values
> from other values, for whatever reason. This is not particularly
> useful in the case of the xsd:integer datatype, but for other
> datatypes, which contain natural language content which is
> otherwise also constrained by the lexical grammar of the
> datatype, this is a very useful bit of functionality. E.g.

Replace "language tag" with "rdf:value property" (for example) in this
paragraph and you've either got a persuasive argument that rdf:value
_can_ have a semantics or (by analogy) language tag is meaningless and
should be dropped.

No?


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