- From: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 11:57:26 +0100
- To: public-i18n-core@w3.org
- CC: "Web Ontology Language ((OWL)) Working Group WG" <public-owl-wg@w3.org>
Hi I earlier brought your attention in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-international/2008JanMar/0001 to an issue being considered by the OWL WG concerning the ability to group natural language literals via lang tags. http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/tracker/issues/71 (based on Jeremy J. Carroll, Addison Phillips: Multilingual RDF and OWL. ESWC 2005: 108-122) While this issue is currently still open and no formal decisions have been made, I have been asked to update you as to our progress. 1) There is informal consensus to give this a go! 2) There is informal consensus to not include XMLLiterals (such as embedded XHTML within OWL) in the scope of the task 3) The most likely approach will be to extend the derived datatype mechanisms (copied more or less from XML Schema) to apply to such natural language literals (a string paired with a lang tag). As a result of (3) there is likely to be regex matching against the langtag, as opposed to RFC 4647 language ranges. I believe that regex matching is more powerful, so that RFC 4647 could be supported by software compliant with the spec being written, but explicit support for RFC 4647 is currently not envisaged. In my judgement, this will be a significant step forward, and while the whole I18N shopping list in this area is too long to carry consensus, I would suggest that a 'cup half full' response would be appropriate in this case. Also, I will be leaving HP next week, and will no longer be participating in the OWL WG. Jeremy OWL Issue tracker: ACTION-144
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