- From: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: 25 Jul 2003 14:00:31 +0100
- To: "Peter F. "Patel-Schneider <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>
- Cc: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>, jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com, Pat Hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>, www-rdf-comments@w3.org, i18n <w3c-i18n-ig@w3.org>
On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 12:54, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote: [...] > Two XML literals are (now) equal in RDF precisely when their Exclusive > XML Canonicalizations are the same octet sequence. > > However other answers are harder to determine. > > 1/ When is an XML literal equal to a plain RDF literal? A plain RDF > literal is a Unicode string (sequence of Unicode characters), so this > question boils down to whether octets and Unicode characters are disjoint. > I found it difficult to answer this question, because of hints in the > exclusive canonicalization document that they are not. I think we've established that UNICODE characters and octet sequences are disjoint. Martin, chair of the I18N group confirmed this in: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-comments/2003JulSep/0069.html Whilst Martin does not like the RDFCore design, as currently specified in the ed's drafts, XMLLiterals and plain literals are disjoint. Pat has agreed to remove some misleading text, as noted in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-comments/2003JulSep/0067.html > > 2/ When is an XML literal equal to an XML Schema string? As currently defined, never. xsd:string's are not octet sequences, see http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-xml-schema-ig/2003Jul/0043.html Peter, how are we doing on pfps-04. Have we resolved your comment? Brian
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