- From: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 19:03:17 +0100
- To: "Jonathan Borden" <jonathan@openhealth.org>, <www-rdf-logic@w3.org>
- Cc: <www-rdf-comments@w3.org>, "patrick hayes" <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
At 12:25 12/07/2002 -0400, Jonathan Borden wrote:
[...]
>I'm sorry
No, I'm sure its because I've not been clear.
>-- I've not seen an actual integer in this discussion, certainly
>not in the N-triples nor RDF/XML that you've written.
When we write:
<Jenny> <age> _:a .
_:a xsdr:decimal "10" .
the _:a denotes an integer. The domain of the xsdr:decimal is the value
space of the xsd:decimal datatype.
Does that help?
>The point is that we _are actually_ talking about literal strings that might
>be _interpreted as_ integers -- but the object of the triple is either a
>URIref or literal string. So "10" === "10".
>
>Of course I agree that integerValueOf("10") = 10, but this isn't part of RDF
>e.g. you can't say:
>
><Mary> <age> 10 .
Effectively, that is what the example I gave above is saying.
Does that help clarify?
Brian
Received on Friday, 12 July 2002 14:07:17 UTC