- From: Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 13:23:41 -0500
- To: "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>
- Cc: public-owl-wg@w3.org
- Message-ID: <29af5e2d0811051023p3e02d849x2d86f54119edf498@mail.gmail.com>
>> >> "for example, very large integers". Do we not need a summary of what >> >> minimal conformance for literals are? >> > >> > Already in Syntax. Perhaps a pointer is called for. >> >> At least. They are probably short enough, however, that it would be >> useful to have them in this document. > > See my comment on copying normative text above. Yes, then I would move it from syntax to conformance as it seems to be better placed in conformance. There isn't a specific labeled section for this in the syntax document. I believe the relevant text is: The literals of xsd:decimal and the datatypes derived from xsd:integer are > mapped to arbitrarily large and arbitrarily precise numbers. An OWL 2 > implementation may support all such literals; however, it must support at > least the following literals, called core literals, which can be easily > mapped to the primitive datatypes commonly found in modern implementation > platforms: > > All xsd:float and xsd:double literals are core literals. > A literal of type xsd:integer or of a type derived from xsd:integer is a > core literal if its data value is in the value space of xsd:long. > A literal of type xsd:decimal is a core literal if its data value is a > number with absolute value less than 1016 and the representation of the > number requires at most 16 digits in total. > -Alan
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