- From: pat hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 11:59:14 -0500
- To: <Patrick.Stickler@nokia.com>
- Cc: <duerst@w3.org>, <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
> >> - Whereas the XML conventions for real datatypes in many ways can be >> taken as just a notational convention for abstract concepts such as >> 'integer' that RDF treats as abstract concepts, in the case of >> XML literals, we are dealing with marked-up text, and so there the >> abstraction we are dealing with is XML, not just the notation. >> (if RDF would want to create their own abstraction of marked-up >> text, that would be a different thing, but currently, it doesn't) > >Again, you seem to be presuming that if it is an XML literal, it >is natural language content. That presumption unfounded. In fact, the very existence of RDF/XML illustrates this. Like it or not, RDF/XML is legal XML, so can itself be enclosed in an RDF XML literal; but one would not expect that RDF/XML to inherit any attributes of the outer RDF/XML. Pat -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32501 (850)291 0667 cell phayes@ihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
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