Re: model theory for RDF/S from Ora Lassila on 2001-10-01 (www-rdf-logic@w3.org from October 2001)

From: Ora Lassila <daml@lassila.org>
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 08:18:29 -0400
To: "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>
CC: www-rdf-logic@w3.org
Message-ID: <3BB85F15.4080004@lassila.org>

Peter,

Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote:

> There are other schemes that could make RDF syntax context free and
> similarly leave RDF as weakly typed.  I would be very careful in adopting a
> particular scheme for RDF literals without considering the alternatives.

We should consider all the alternatives. The idea of literal types was 
once discussed (in the M+S WG I recall) and then conveniently forgotten, 
leaving this "we have string literals and then some magic happens, 
giving us righ data types...".

Did I mention I don't necessarily like the XML Schema datatypes?

	- Ora

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