- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: 05 Nov 2002 21:54:32 -0600
- To: Pat Hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Cc: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 19:30, pat hayes wrote: > > I need guidance, please. Bare literals denote themselves, OK. BUt > themselves are what, exactly? ASCII strings? Unicode strings? UTF-8 > character code sequences?? unicode strings. > If this question has an answer, I'd be grateful for guidance and a > uriref to a suitable normative reference if there is one, thanks. quite so... "Character string: A string viewed as a sequence of characters, each represented by a code point in Unicode [Unicode]." http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-charmod-20020430/#def-character-string It's really as simple as that, but if you want to spend a bit of time to confirm your understanding, I highly recommend you read "3.2 Digital Encoding of Characters" thru "3.4 Strings". > I would like a sub-XML answer, if possible. That is, I would like to > leave open the question of whether or not these things are XSD > 'strings', and leave that to XML schema to decide. yup. -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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