- From: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 14:57:56 +0000
- To: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Cc: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>, www-rdf-comments@w3.org, w3c-i18n-ig@w3.org
Dan Connolly wrote: > > The working group decided that this issue a new issue, > but to postpone it: > > [[[ > add a new issue to the issue list: > "relationship between XMLLiterals and plain literals," and postpone it. > > Rationale: > > The lack of semantic equivalence between XMLLiterals and plain > literals has been clear since the first WD of RDF Concepts, and > was arguable in RDF Model and Syntax. > > The RDF Semantics does not preclude RDF applications using additional > information to determine that two literals are equivalent, but does not > mandate that they should be. > > Hence, RDF applciations which require this equivalence may operate > in such a mode, and so this issue is not a show stopper. > ]] The postponed issue can be found at: http://www.w3.org/2000/03/rdf-tracking/#rdf-plain-and-xml-literals Brian
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