On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Patrick Stickler wrote: > > > This also lets a Dan C. protect his turf if he wants to stop people > > drawing the wrong conclusions about his literals, because he could say > > Anyone who wants to play on their own turf and work in a closed > system are free to use whatever MT they like, but RDF is for > global *interchange* of knowledge between widely disparate > systems, and as such should embody as completely and explicitly ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > as possible the intended meaning of the asserted statements. ^^^^^^^^^^^ That is true, and the way to do that seems to use datatyped literals, to deprecate "bare" literals and to get Winston to tippex out their existence. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Hang on, wasn't he holding a wooden parrot? No! It was a porcelain owl.Received on Friday, 27 September 2002 05:45:04 EDT
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