Re: Schema.org in RDF ...

On Jun 11, 2011, at 10:55 AM, Alan Ruttenberg wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de> wrote:
>> That's a good point. The problem is that xsd:string is too narrow and rdfs:Literal is too broad. RDF 1.1 is likely to define a class of all string literals (tagged and untagged), we'll use that when its name has been settled, and perhaps just leave the inaccurate xsd:string in place for now.
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> There already exists such a type that is a W3C recommendation. It is
> called rdf:PlainLiteral - see http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-plain-literal/
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> I'm not sure why RDF 1.1 working group is not aware of that.

It is. But rdf:PlainLiteral requires the literal to be re-written in an odd and unintuitive fashion. The WG is working out a slight variation on this which will get past that awkwardness. Just be patient...

Pat



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