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Re: Datatype test cases ...

From: Patrick Stickler <patrick.stickler@nokia.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 09:33:55 +0200
Message-ID: <008f01c29130$58b77130$149316ac@NOE.Nokia.com>
To: "ext Jeremy Carroll" <jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com>, "Dave Beckett" <dave.beckett@bristol.ac.uk>
Cc: "Brian McBride" <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>, "Jan Grant" <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>, "pat hayes" <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>, "Jeremy Carroll" <jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com>, "RDFCore Working Group" <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org> 



[Patrick Stickler, Nokia/Finland, (+358 40) 801 9690, patrick.stickler@nokia.com]


> - I suggest the conclusions should always use the canonical form of a 
> datatype (Brian's bnode in conclusion pattern is also OK).

Not all datatypes define a canonical space, and "cononical forms" are 
unknown to RDF datatyping, thus we should not recommend or require
anything that is outside the scope of the RDF machinery.

Patrick
Received on Thursday, 21 November 2002 02:33:58 EST

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