- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 11:10:09 -0500
- To: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>
- Cc: "Seaborne, Andy" <andy.seaborne@hp.com>, "public-rdf-text@w3.org" <public-rdf-text@w3.org>
On May 18, 2009, at 10:45 AM, Sandro Hawke wrote: > > on one small point, letting others deal with the bigger question for > now... > >> (though I >> devoutly wish that if the first road is chosen, that rdf:text be >> modified to remove the insane trailing '@' when there is no language >> tag) > > But how could you distinguish between the string "hello@en" with no > language tag and the string "hello" with the language tag "en"? Good point :-) > > Maybe it would be okay to forbid empty language language tags, > treating > RDF's allowing them as an erratum. That would at least remove this > "insane" case. (Anyone care to look back for the RDF Core decision to > allow them, and see what the intent was?) Can you cite where this (that a lang tag can be empty) is stated in the RDF specs? I can't find it, and I don't recall this being decided. The Abstract Syntax document cites RFC 3066, and I can't find any mention of empty tags there either in a quick scan. Pat > > -- Sandro > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32502 (850)291 0667 mobile phayesAT-SIGNihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
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