Re: datatype literals and lang codes

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


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ext Jeremy Carroll" <jjc@hpl.hp.com>
To: <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
Sent: 21 October, 2002 10:12
Subject: Re: datatype literals and lang codes


> 
> > Thinking in the bath
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> I trust you logged the hot water as a business expense!
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> Does:
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>   <a> <b> "chat"<xsd:string>-"en" .
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> datatype entail:
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>   <a> <b> "chat"<xsd:string>-"fr" .
> ]]
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> Answer:
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> yes.
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> i.e. under the solution sketched by Graham that appeared to have wide
> support, within a system that uses xsd:string the above entailment holds. At
> the pure RDF level (no datatyping) then it does not hold.

I agree. 

> I understood that it was that subtle distinction that allows Patrick to
> believe that he can both have his cake and eat it.

Yep. Yum.

> I am building on the assumption that that solution is the one we are going
> with; but at the end of the day this is Pat's call I think. From the point
> of the view of the abstract syntax what the solution (big picture) gives me
> is a view in which having the lang codes is coherent - whether I permit any
> of that coherency to be apparant is, of course, another issue.

It's coherent to me. I'm awaiting Pat's comments, though.

Patrick


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Received on Monday, 21 October 2002 03:44:49 UTC