Re: RDF Issue rdfms-literalsubjects from Seth Russell on 2002-02-24 (www-rdf-comments@w3.org from January to March 2002)

From: Seth Russell <seth@robustai.net>
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 11:28:57 -0800
To: "RDF-comments" <www-rdf-comments@w3.org>
Message-ID: <002501c1bd69$813f2760$657ba8c0@c1457248a.sttls1.wa.home.com>

From: "Tim Berners-Lee" <timbl@w3.org>

[[
I understand that current RDF does not allow subjects to be literals. This
is acceptable as a response at this stage, because of the damage to the RDF
syntax to try to fix it.
]]

I don't understand this "damage" to syntax.  What are the problems with just
using something like "rdf:aboutLiteral" instead of "rdf:about" where the
subject is a literal?   I gather that there is no problems with the
semantics of using literals for subjects.

Seth Russell

Received on Sunday, 24 February 2002 14:32:31 UTC