Re: So now we have tidy literals...

At 11:23 16/10/2002 +0300, Patrick Stickler wrote:

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>It is a matter of principle, mostly. RDF Datatyping is (and IMO should remain)
>datatype framework neutral. It fully supports XML Schema datatypes, but also
>supports any datatype framework which is compatable with the basic datatyping
>model defined by RDF.
>
>Having inlined literals default to typed literals of a specific XML Schema
>datatype violates this neutrality, and I see no real need for it.#

Thanks for clarifying.  I was kinda thinking there was no point in 
inventing another xsd:string when there is one already.

Brian