- From: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:24:46 +0000
- To: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Cc: public-owl-dev@w3.org
On 23 Jan 2007, at 16:12, Pat Hayes wrote: >> Oh, thinking about this some more reminded me of something. >> >> One (alternative) way to serialize axiom annotations would be to >> embed them in XMLLiterals. Then it'd be quite easy to have URIs >> (or not) for axioms (though this identity would be independent of >> the content...yuck!) > > Why XMLLiterals? Going with the most specific appropriate type and trying to stick with built in types? Also, I keep hoping RDF toolkits will get better at dealing with XMLLiterals :) > Why not use xsd:string literals? Eh...then I'd use plain literals. > Probably they introduce fewer parsing problems; and all that the > RDF has to do is not lose them, most of the time, since some > external code will have to dig inside them to get the comment out > anyway, no? You misunderstood. I speak of putting the *axiom* in the XMLLiteral in RDF/XML form (for example). Thus reifying (in a sense) the axiom but also isolating its representation, etc. etc. Cheers, Bijan.
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