RE: Datatyping literals: question and test cases

>  >Did you not understand the request? or
>>did you disagree with it? Or is it
>>a matter of not having time to write
>>it that way?
>
>My negative response to the request was here:
>
>http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-rdfcore-wg/2002Oct/0388.html
>
>it echoes what I think you said, and gives a rationale for rejecting your
>suggestion. Looks like we need to spend more time on that one.

I don't find the reasons give all very convincing. In particular, 
arguments from formal elegance should only be used as tie-breakers. 
But the last one, about XML accidents, is a reasonable one.

I would suggest that we let the model theory merge the cases back 
together, by ignoring the lang tag for non-XML literals. It has no 
meaning outside XML in any case: the *strings* "chat"eng and "chat"fr 
are the same string. If we want to distinguish them, then we should 
call them 'words' and have a domain of words in the model theory for 
them to denote.

Pat


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Received on Wednesday, 30 October 2002 13:12:57 UTC