- From: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 13:42:29 +0000
- To: pat hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>, w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
At 18:36 06/11/2002 -0600, pat hayes wrote: >In case anyone was wondering, the reason that the inference > >aaa bbb "foo"^^ddd . >--> >aaa bbb _:xxx . >_:xxx rdf:type ddd . > >didnt get put into RDFS (but was left until the datatypes were introduced) >is because, contrary to what I first thought, this inference DOES depend >on access to datatype information, in order to check that 'foo' is a legal >lexical form according to the datatype ddd. So even though it doesnt >depend on the particular value, it does need external datatype information >to be valid. > >Just a quick explanation. > >Also, after Jos' question I guess I ought to either remove that comment or >else put in a bit more explanation. Sigh. Maybe, but that's wordsmithing and not needed for this round. Brian
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