- From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 11:01:32 +0000 (GMT)
- To: Patrick Stickler <patrick.stickler@nokia.com>
- cc: fmanola <fmanola@mitre.org>, w3c-rdfcore-wg <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
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? -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ The Java disclaimer: values of 'anywhere' may vary between regions.
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