Re: getting to Last Call on rdf:text

Dear all,

Firstly, sorry, sorry, for stepping in so late. I was kept up with other
things and then got sick last week :-(

back to business

Phillips, Addison wrote:
>>> Hi Jie, The issue wasn't so much the note, but the actual
>>> definition of
>> the functions
>>> fn:text-length fn:matches-language-range
>> I agree that these two particular functions should be dropped, but 
>> for a different reason: they are redundant.  Their functionality
>> can be achieved by extracting the relevant components from the
>> rdf:text literal and then doing string comparison.
> 
> I think it would be quite problematic to drop
> fn:matches-language-range. There is no other mechanism for correctly
> comparing language tags and ranges. 

agree.

> It is not a simple string
> comparison. I agree that 'text-length' may be redundant.

Well, this function was specifically suggested to back up facets...
but if a "backup" by string-extraction and then string-length is fine 
for the others, then ok

>>> These are functions that it appears the rdf:text spec defines,
>> but
>>> they are defined in the namespace that XQuery controls. So my
> 
> The I18N working group intends to bring this issue to XQuery.
> However, if necessary, rdf:text should define the function, possibly
> in a different namespace from fn:.

such as?

(I am not through yet with all replies, if that was an early shot, 
apologies)

Axel

> Addison
> 
> 
> Addison Phillips Globalization Architect -- Lab126 Chair -- W3C
> Internationalization WG
> 
> Internationalization is not a feature. It is an architecture.
> 
> 
> 


-- 
Dr. Axel Polleres
Digital Enterprise Research Institute, National University of Ireland,
Galway
email: axel.polleres@deri.org  url: http://www.polleres.net/

Received on Friday, 3 April 2009 15:11:27 UTC