Axel Polleres wrote:
[snip]
> Sure!
>
> As for the namespace, I personally prefer rdf: sharing jos' arguments
> here that it is in my opinion NOT problematic to do so. Several rdf:
> namespaced properties already do not have a specified formal semantics
> (the reification having been mentioned already, so what).
>
Yes, that is indeed a good point.
[snip]
>
> A probably more feasible solution would be to do a real type hierarchy,
> for language tags and - instead of a datatype
> owl:internationalizedString or rif:text which has pairs of strings and
> language tags as lexical space - define separate datatypes and
> (subtypes) for each lang-tag, ie.
>
> use:
>
> message("Hello"^^lang:en-US)
>
> where e.g. lang:en-US is a subtype of lang:en, i.e.
> that would also imply
>
> message("Hello"^^lang:en)
>
> (just as xsd:integer is a subtype of xsd:integer of xsd:decimal in the
> XML Schema type hierarchy, see
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#built-in-datatypes)
>
> Anything wrong with that? To me this seems much cleaner than this
> fiddling around with pairs of strings and lang-tags.
>
[snip]
This is indeed quite nice, I must say. Addison already referred to one
caveat that I intended to raise, namely the possibly high number of
language tags (by the way, [1] gives a fairly readable overview of
those). Let us see where that discussion goes...
Another issue is that we have to see is how well this works with the OWL
design (I have explicitly added Boris on the cc list to draw his
attention:-). My understanding of the current datatype restriction
design[2] is that one can define facets for a specific datatype, but not
across several datatypes; on the other hand in this proposal the
datatype for 'en-us' and 'en-gb' would be different and both would be
different from 'en' (although 'en-us' and 'en-gb' would both be subtypes
of 'en'). How could I define facets that involves all these? Would that
work well with the OWL design? I actually hope we can find a way,
because the usage of these URI-s looks quite elegant...
Cheers
Ivan
[1] http://www.w3.org/International/articles/language-tags/
[2] http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/Syntax#Datatype_Restrictions
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