RE: Change in definition of RDF literals

I must have been asleep. Oh well. It's not at all what I would
prefer, but I guess I can live with it.

Patrick


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext Jeremy Carroll [mailto:jjc@hpl.hp.com]
> Sent: 15 May, 2003 09:50
> To: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
> Subject: RE: Change in definition of RDF literals
> 
> 
> 
> > It seems to say that the lexical form is canonicalized.
> 
> Agreed, it does say that.
> 
> 
> Clicking through on the issue list from reagle-01 we see
> that the assumption that the lexical form is canonical is correct.
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/RDFCore/20030123-issues/#reagle-01
> 
> click on accepted:
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-comments/2003AprJu
> n/0021.html
> 
> [[
> The RDF Core WG has resolved
> 
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-rdfcore-wg/2003Apr/0097.html
> item 13,
> to accept this issue and address it as proposed in
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-rdfcore-wg/2003Mar/0151.html
> ]]
> 
> In which we read:
> 
> syntax:
> New text:
> [[
> The string used as the lexical form of the XML Literal
> is the Exclusive XML Canonicalization [XML-XC14N])
> with comments and with empty <a href="
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/REC-xml-exc-c14n-20020718/#def-Inclu
siveNamespaces
-PrefixList
">
InclusiveNamespaces PrefixList
</a>
of the
literal text l, i.e. the entire element content
of this property element.
]]


concepts
new text:
[[
The lexical space
is the union of the set of all pairs ( string, lang ) and the set of all
strings string,
for which:
+ lang is any language identifier [RFC-3066] normalized to lowercase;
+ string is well-balanced, self-contained XML element content [XML];
+ string is
<a href="
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/REC-xml-exc-c14n-20020718/#def-exclusive-canonical
-XML
">
exclusive
Canonical XML </a> (with comments, with empty <a href="
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/REC-xml-exc-c14n-20020718/#def-InclusiveNamespaces
-PrefixList
">
InclusiveNamespaces PrefixList
</a>);
+ the XML document corresponding to the pair or the string is a well-formed
XML document [XML] that also conforms to XML Namespaces [XML-NS].
]]

Received on Thursday, 15 May 2003 04:02:13 UTC