A counter proposal for changes to the rdf:text document

A different proposal, that I much prefer, with diffs from the current
Wiki text.

The basic idea behind this proposal is to do the minimum violation of
RDF principles to help recommendations and tools that predate rdf:text
and thus may have not made an explicit, specific decision to distinguish
between plain literals and literals with datatype rdf:text.


1/ Section 1, second paragraph:

... Furthermore, when needed to improve interoperability with tools that
have not explicitly chosen not to support rdf:text, typed rdf:text
literals in RDF graphs may be replaced with plain literals.


2/ Paragraph just before Section 5:

Despite the semantic equivalence between typed rdf:text literals and
plain literals in datatype interpretations, the presence of typed
rdf:text literals in an RDF graph might cause interoperability problems
for RDF tools that predate rdf:text and thus have not made an explicit,
specific decision to distinguish between plain literals and literals
with datatype rdf:text.  Therefore, when exchanging or storing RDF
graphs (taken in the broad sense to include any datatype or syntax for
an RDF graph) in a context where the RDF graph may be used by a tool
that predates this recommendation, the RDF graph *MAY* be modified by
replacing rdf:text literals with the corresponding plain literals.


Peter F. Patel-Schneider
Bell Labs Research

Received on Thursday, 21 May 2009 22:05:21 UTC