Re: RDFS interpretation of typed literals

OK, I agree.  To check my understanding ...

If the datatype is unknown then we can't know that the literal is not in 
error, so we can't know the value is in rdfs:Literal.

Thanks.

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At 09:55 16/12/03 +0000, Brian McBride wrote:


>Graham Klyne wrote:
>
>[...]
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>>So I think the above statement is either True or False, depending on the 
>>interpretation used.  So far, so good.  But is this an RDFS-entailment:
>>   ex:s ex:p "foo"^^ddd .
>>|=
>>   ex:s ex:p _:b .
>>   _:b rdf:type rdfs:Literal .
>>Intuitively, I would have said "yes", but as far as I can tell from the 
>>semantics spec, the answer is "no".  This is an entailment only in a 
>>{RDFS,ddd}-interpretation, because it is only a D-interpretation that 
>>places the required constraints on the relationships between 
>>I(rdfs:Literal), LV and IL.
>>Am I correct?  Is this what we expected?
>
>As I recall, the way we handle datatype errors, i.e. where "foo" is not in 
>the lexical space of ddd, is to say that "foo"^^ddd is not a member of 
>rdfs:Literal.  Therefore it is only appropriate datatype interpretations 
>that can make this entailment.

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