- From: Peter F. Patel-Schneider <pfps@verizon.net>
- Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 07:20:21 -0400
- To: public-rdf-text@w3.org
> > In terms of the actual issue being presented this special text datatype, I see it as a plausible name for some implementation detail, but I don't much like it getting out onto the wire: that seems to be trying to redesign something that is probably best left alone. > > Jeremy > An issue is that it is too late to prevent the initial spread of datatypes for strings, the presense of xsd:string in Semantic Web documents is no longer just an academic exercise (http://www.w3.org/TR/swbp-xsch-datatypes/) as it has already been seen in the Web and has demonstrated reliable document to document transmission. There are even several varities of string datatypes extant (e.g., xsd:language). How are you proposing to halt the transmission of these datatypes? It appears to me to be too late to save tools that do not understand string datatypes. They will inevitably succumb to just the current spread, without any further push from rdf:text. peter
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