On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Robert Sanderson <azaroth42@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
>
> Hi Randall,
>
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Randall Leeds <randall@bleeds.info>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 1:36 AM, Jacco van Ossenbruggen <
>> Jacco.van.Ossenbruggen@cwi.nl> wrote:
>>
>>> Having to explain to developers with an RDF background why this triple
>>> > <> oa:body "hi"@en .
>>> is illegal in OA would be a royal pain.
>>>
>>
>> Can anyone clarify for me? I am not understanding why this would be an
>> illegal triple.
>> Isn't this object the resource {"@language": "en", "@value": "hi"} ?
>> What's illegal here? I only see that the resulting triple does not
>> serialize as a literal in JSON-LD, but it does have a valid serialization.
>>
>
> That's a literal, not a resource (which demonstrates the confusion or at
> least the intuitive terminology problem :) )
>
> It's currently illegal according to the spec because you can't have a
> language tagged literal as the body, only an xsd:string. All language
> tagged literals have a special data type in RDF "
> http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#langString" (see:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf11-concepts/#section-Graph-Literal) and thus
> cannot be of any other data type.
> You also can't give it any other properties, type or identity.
>
It's actually the very next section on Blank Nodes that drives it home for
me:
"Blank nodes are disjoint from IRIs
<http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf11-concepts/#dfn-iri> and literals
<http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf11-concepts/#dfn-literal>."
o.O
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