- From: David Wood <david@3roundstones.com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:39:19 -0400
- To: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>, Ian Horrocks <ian.horrocks@comlab.ox.ac.uk>, Lee Feigenbaum <lee@thefigtrees.net>
- Cc: RDF Working Group WG <public-rdf-wg@w3.org>, W3C SW CG Group <w3c-semweb-cg@w3.org>, public-rdf-dawg@w3.org
Hi all, The RDF working group resolved our ISSUE-12 [1] today, which is intended to "reconcile various forms of string literals". We resolved to accept the proposal at: http://www.w3.org/2011/rdf-wg/wiki/StringLiterals/AbolishUntaggedPlain with the modification that preferred output form (SHOULD) is "foo" not "foo" ^^xsd:string in RDF; and we recommend that SPARQL and other WGs do the same. Discussion highlighted several possible areas of concern, which we believe the current proposal addresses. Specifically, it was noted that: - The forms "foo" and "foo"^^xsd:string are equivalent input syntaxes. - The form "foo" is the preferred output syntax. - The WG suggests retaining the term "plain literal" in documents to avoid unnecessary rework. Such plain literals would be considered semantically equivalent to xsd:strings. NB: This resolution makes *no statement* about language-tagged literals (e.g. "foo"@en). We invite discussion regarding the ramifications of this resolution to other working groups and implementors. Regards, Dave [1] http://www.w3.org/2011/rdf-wg/track/issues/12
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