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Re: open concepts issues - proposals for xmlsch-05 and xsmlsch-06

From: Dave Beckett <dave.beckett@bristol.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 12:41:16 +0100
To: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hpl.hp.com>
Cc: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
Message-Id: <20030514124116.54fc3f0c.dave.beckett@bristol.ac.uk> 

On Wed, 14 May 2003 13:14:56 +0300
Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hpl.hp.com> wrote:

> The issue list
> http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/RDFCore/20030123-issues/

<snip/>

> PROPOSE to accept; with rewording (added 'not' and 'except for')
> 
> [[
> A plain literal is a string combined with an optional language
>         identifier. This should not be used except for plain text 
>         in a natural language. As recommended in the RDF formal semantics
>         [RDF-SEMANTICS], these plain literals are self-denoting.
> ]]
> 
> (Note this an informative "should not", not a normative "SHOULD NOT")

I found that sentence a bit complex, how about:
  This should only be used for plain text in a natural language. 

Dave
Received on Wednesday, 14 May 2003 07:42:52 EDT

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