Re: Typed literals: current status

At 11:09 21/10/2002 -0400, Frank Manola wrote:

[...]


>To start with (b), we'd discussed abbreviating writing out full Ntriples
>in examples, and I thought we'd decided that instead of writing out full
>URIrefs in angle brackets, we'd write QNames without angle brackets, as
>in
>
>ex:index.html dc:creator exstaff:85740 .
>ex:index.html exterms:creation-date "August 16, 1999" .

Yes we have.  Note however, that this is a notational convenience in our 
documents and not part of n-triples.

[...]

>1.  have we decided on the syntax for typed literals in Ntriples?  If
>so, what is it?

Dave is working on it as we speak.

>2.  given the decided syntax for typed literals in Ntriples, do you have
>any suggestions for an abbreviated
>     syntax (analogous the one described above) that uses Qnames?

I agree we need this.  I hope Dave will bear this in mind as he designs the 
updates to the n-triples syntax.

Brian