Re: XMLLiterals and language

Jeremy Carroll wrote:

> According to the recs the language in this one is ignored. If you want 
> the language tag (which you should) you have to put it explicitly 
> inside the XMLLiteral e.g.
>
>
> <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
>   xmlns="....xhtml"
>   xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
>   <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://www.w3.org/">
>     <dc:title  rdf:parseType="Literal" xml:lang="en"><span
> xml:lang="en">World Wide Web
>  Consortium</span></dc:title>
>   </rdf:Description>
>  </rdf:RDF>

After finding the current recs, I think I understood but don't like it.

My usecase is an application (KnoBot [1]) delivering rdf on http 
requests, it honours the accept-language header on a per literal basis, 
literals in a language that is not in the accept-language header are not 
ignored, the others are sorted according to the user preferences. Now I 
don't like the idea to xml-parse every literal.

Then I would have assumed a semantic difference between the language of 
the literal, and the language of the elements in the xhtml.

<ex:Book>
    <dc:title xml:lang="de">Carpe diem</dc:title>
</ex:Book>

I would have thought that this means that the title of the German 
(translation of a) book is "Carpe diem". Similarly to quotes in foreign 
language within a document, if xml:lang would be legal with XMLLiterals 
I would have understood the following to express that "Carpe diem" are 
Latin words expressing the German title of the book.

<ex:Book>
    <dc:title xml:lang="de" rdf:parseType="Literal"><span
xml:lang="la">Carpe diem</span></dc:title>
</ex:Book>


reto


1. https://sourceforge.net/projects/knobot/