RE: simple fix

Good idea, and it think this should work as well.

Regarding the empty language tags, the answer is probably no: they can be empty
in neither RDF nor BCP-47.

Boris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-rdf-text-request@w3.org [mailto:public-rdf-text-request@w3.org]
> On Behalf Of Sandro Hawke
> Sent: 21 May 2009 21:01
> To: public-rdf-text@w3.org
> Subject: simple fix
> 
> 
> Can't we just say, as strongly as we need to, that rdf:text is NOT for
> use in RDF?  Instead it is for use in *non-RDF* systems which use XML
> datatypes and want interoperability with RDF's language-tagged literals?
> 
> I know that hasn't been made very clear, to date.   New title:
> 
>   rdf:text -- an equivalent to RDF Plain Literals for non-RDF systems
> 
> We can be more precise about this in the body -- I like Dave Reynold's
> description of how RIF is not an RDF system, but is still compatible --
> but mostly this just seems like a PR problem.
> 
> I think there's also an open question of whether to allow empty language
> tags, and whether RDF plain literals without language tags should be
> mapped to xs:strings instead of rdf:text, but I bet we can solve those a
> lot more easily after we're clear about rdf:text's place in the world.
> 
>        -- Sandro
>

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