Re: editoral comments on rdf:text

 > Let's just use "rtfn" as the namespace abreviation.  No one else seems
 > to be using that, and people will probably follow our lead.

implemented that.

Sandro Hawke wrote:
> Take or leave these as you will.
> 
>> 1  Introduction
> 
> FWIW, the introduction was fairly confusing and hard, unlike the rest of
> spec, which is great.  It reads more like an abstract, where I have to
> really know the subject to understand it.
> 
> My elevator pitch for rdf:text, and what I expected to see in the intro
> is: RDF has three types of literals (plain without language tag, plain
> with language tag, and typed), and sometimes when you're designing
> systems layered on RDF, this gives you three times the
> complexity. rdf:text lets you treat RDF as having just typed literals,
> so it's sometimes good for simplifying things.
> 
> (In retrospect, after all this, Boris, are you having second thoughts
> about using rdf:text at all in OWL 2?  :-)
> 
> I'd probably link to 
>      http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-concepts/#section-Literals
> at the first mention of RDF literals.
> 
>> All typed RDF literals are interpreted as plain RDF literals,
>   
> This confused me a lot until I figured it out it meant "All literals
> of type rdf:text are interpreted..." or some such.
> 
> The last paragraph of the intro should probably be in an
> Acknowledgements section instead of the Intro.
> 
> I should note that I've always said "RDF plain literal" and "RDF typed
> literal", where this document says "plain RDF literal" and "typed RDF
> literal".  That struck me as odd, but I got used to it.  Since the RDF
> specs just call it "plain literal" and "typed literal", it's not much
> help.
> 
>> 2 Preliminaries 
> 
> The link "Char" is http://www.w3.org/TR/xml11/#NT-Char
> I think you now mean http://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#NT-Char
> 
> I loved the first example.   (it's odd, but cool.)
> 
>> A typed RDF literal consists of a string and a datatype URI [RDF], it
>> is written as "abc"^^datatypeURI,
> 
> really it's     "abc"^^<datatypeURI>
> 
> although since we always qnames in this doc, and lt/gt are often used to
> signal metasyntax, maybe that would just be more confusing.
> 
>> 3 Definition of the rdf:text Datatype 
> 
> I'd kinda like table borders in the example; I always have a hard time
> doing them in the wiki, though.
> 
>> 4 Relationship with Plain RDF Literals and xs:string
> 
> All good (modulo substantive issues raised elsewhere)
> 
>> 5 Functions on rdf:text Data Values 
> 
> I didn't read section 5 very closely; I should study xpath, xquery and
> DTB first.
> 
> Let's just use "rtfn" as the namespace abreviation.  No one else seems
> to be using that, and people will probably follow our lead.
> 
> That's it.  :-)
> 
>      -- Sandro
> 


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

Received on Tuesday, 7 April 2009 11:05:03 UTC