Re: Datatyping: new medium-range proposal from HP

This mid-range proposal does not alleviate the need to have
to modify all deployed content employing inlined literals
with presumed value-based semantics.

Unless, of course, RDF were to also be provided an include
mechanism so that "wrappers" could be put around all such
legacy instances to provide the syntax-based datatyping
assertions.

Patrick

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


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ext Brian McBride" <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
To: "Jeremy Carroll" <jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com>; <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
Sent: 03 October, 2002 11:09
Subject: Re: Datatyping: new medium-range proposal from HP


> 
> At 17:19 02/10/2002 +0100, Jeremy Carroll wrote:
> 
> 
> >Summary: use file scope syntactic datatyping mechanism.
> 
> I was really pleased to see this proposal, not particularly because of its 
> specific merits, but because it suggests that there may be acceptable 
> compromise positions around which the WG might be able to build a consensus.
> 
> I will allocate some time to discuss this proposal at the next 
> telecon.  You might like to think about the following questions:
> 
>    o does it better meet collective 'requirements' than tidy or untidy alone?
> 
>    o what are its disadvantages?  Are they acceptable?  Do you have a 
> suggestion for a modification which would eliminate/ameliorate these 
> disadvantages?
> 
>    o do you have an alternative suggestion that would better meet our 
> collective requirements?
> 
> Brian
>

Received on Thursday, 3 October 2002 04:49:43 UTC