Re: possible way out of maze? [was: Re: xml:lang [was Re: Outstanding Issues ]]

At 11:22 27/02/2002 -0600, Pat Hayes wrote:
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>Let me suggest a possible way out of this maze. Its the kind of thing that 
>a mathematician would say, so maybe it won't be acceptable, but here goes.

What maze?  The WG decided at the f2f that literals are in fact a triple:

   <parsetype, lang-code, unicode-string>

The parseType is a single bit which indicates if the string came from a 
parseType="Literal" in the xml/syntax.  The lang-code is a short string 
from some iso standard that defines the language.  The string is the string.

Does this give the model theory problems Pat.
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>PS. One case which this might not handle well would be where the one 
>string means different things in different languages. Are there any cases 
>like that?

Lots e.g. "chat"

Brian