Re: Dataypes, literals, syntax

On 2002-07-31, pat hayes uttered to Peter F. Patel-Schneider:

>Building datatypes into the syntax of literals seems to incorporate
>datatyping into RDF much more centrally than the other proposals. It
>would mean for example that RDF without datatyping would be meaningless:
>all of RDF would be datatyped.

This is perhaps the right time to reiterate my earlier point. As far as I
can see, literals already have some typing in place because of the
language and parsetype fields, now considered an integral part of
literals. (Cf. http://www.w3.org/2000/03/rdf-tracking/#rdfms-xmllang.) I
can't see why the parsetype bit couldn't be expanded into a full-fledged
type URI, without things getting any more complicated than they are now.
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