- From: pat hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 10:08:58 -0500
- To: "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>
- Cc: www-rdf-comments@w3.org, jjc@hpl.hp.com
>From: pat hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu> >Subject: Re: pfps-08 last call comment on typed literals >Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 18:32:19 -0500 > >[...] > >> >Note that even this would not eliminate all the concerns I have with >> >rdf:XMLLiteral. >> >> Suppose (just suppose, mark you) that lang tags were eliminated >> altogether from the graph syntax, even from XML literals, and >> rdf:XMLLiteral were a built-in datatype with a lexical-to-value map >> which simply applies an XML canonicalization to the literal string. >> >> Might that overcome your concerns, if it were done in a suitable way? >> >> Pat > >This would be much better. > >However, the lexical-to-value map for rdf:XMLLiteral is rather bogus right >now. Why should there be the extra ``junk'' added, for example? It seems >to me that it would be better to have the denotation of > "<xxx></xxx>"^^rdf:XMLLiteral >*be* > "<xxx></xxx>" >and not > "<rdf-wrapper ....><xxx></xxx></rdf-wrapper>" Please take that one up with Jeremy. I defer to him on matters concerned with XML syntax. 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@ai.uwf.edu http://www.coginst.uwf.edu/~phayes s.pam@ai.uwf.edu for spam
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