Re: details of rdf:datatype?

> I'm puzzling thru the details of the [6Sep] decision.
>
> It seems to specify that this holds:
>
>          :jenny :age <...#integer>"10".
> =>
>          :jenny :age <...#decimal>"10".
>
>
> since those two literals denote the same value.
>
> and this one holds:
>
>          :jenny :age <...#decimal>"010".
> =>
>          :jenny :age <...#decimal>"10".
>
> If somebody would please confirm, I'd appreciate it.

I'm convinced that above 2 cases must hold
it's a straightforward job for a parser to do your
"recognizing" for the primitive XML Schema datatypes
(at least that's our actual experience)

> But I don't see how this works for an open-ended set
> of datatypes. Does this hold?

open ended will be incomplete by necessity I would think

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Jos De Roo, AGFA http://www.agfa.com/w3c/jdroo/

Received on Monday, 14 October 2002 10:58:17 UTC