Re: [LC response] To Daniel Barclay

Dear Daniel,

Thank you for your comment
      <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-owl-comments/ 
2009Sep/0015.html>
on the OWL 2 Web Ontology Language last call drafts.

An RDF plain literal is not the same thing as a typed literal whose  
type is rdf:PlainLiteral. For example, "Family Guy"@en is a plain  
literal with a language tag, whereas "Family  
Guy@en"^^rdf:PlainLiteral is a typed literal whose type is  
rdf:PlainLiteral. In both cases the interpretation is the pair <  
"Family Guy" , "en" >. This distinction is necessary for backwards  
compatibility with RDF.

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Regards,
Ian Horrocks
on behalf of the W3C OWL Working Group


Daniel Barclay wrote:
> Boris Motik wrote:
> > Dear Daniel,
> >
> > Thank you for your comment
> >      <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-owl-comments/ 
> 2009Sep/0007.html>
> > on the OWL 2 Web Ontology Language last call drafts.
> >
> > The current formulation is correct, since "abc@" and  
> "abc@langTag" are valid
> > lexical forms of the rdf:PlainLiteral datatype. Please refer to the
> > "rdf:PlainLiteral: A Datatype for RDF Plain Literals" specification
> > (http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-rdf-plain-literal-20090611/) for  
> more information
> > and examples.
>
> The third-to-last paragraph of section 2 of that document says:
>
>
>      A plain literal is a string with an optional language tag [RDF].
>      A plain literal without a language tag is interpreted in an RDF
>      interpretation by itself.  A plain literal with a language tag
>      can be written as "abc"@langTag, and is interpreted in an RDF
>      interpretation as a pair < "abc" , "langTag" >.
>
> But then the third paragraph of section 3 says:
>
>     Lexical Space. An rdf:PlainLiteral lexical form is a string of
>     the form "abc@langTag" where "abc" is an arbitrary (possibly
>     empty) string, and "langTag" is either the empty string or
>     a (not necessarily lowercase) language tag. ...
>
> Why does the first have the at sign ("@") outside the quotes, but
> the second has it inside?
>
> Does the rdf:plainLiteral specification use the phrase "written as"
> or the term "lexical form" in some strange sense?  (Normally, the
> lexical form of something is the form in which it can be written.)
>
> Daniel
>
>
> > Please acknowledge receipt of this email to <mailto:public-owl- 
> comments@w3.org>
> > (replying to this email should suffice). In your acknowledgment  
> please let us
> > know whether or not you are satisfied with the working group's  
> response to your
> > comment.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Boris Motik
> > on behalf of the W3C OWL Working Group
> >
> >

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