RE: xmlsch-02

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext Graham Klyne [mailto:gk@ninebynine.org]
> Sent: 31 August, 2003 11:24
> To: Brian McBride
> Cc: Stickler Patrick (NMP/Tampere); w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org; Peter F.
> Patel-Schneider
> Subject: Re: xmlsch-02
>
> ...the 
> denotation of 
> "foo"^^some:datatype is undefined if "foo" is not in the 
> lexical space of 
> some:datatype.  That is, there are no dependable entailments or 
> non-entailments involving such forms.  
> ...
> Thus, any RDF that contains such mismatched lexical forms 
> cannot be used 
> dependably in any inference process. 
> ...
> explicitly recognizing corner cases that may be treated 
> differently by 
> different applications, and mainly by being sufficiently 
> clear about the 
> core language that MUST NOT be susceptible to such variability, is to 
> proceed in similar spirit.

+1

Patrick