Re: Pat's draft

On May 21, 2009, at 7:39 PM, Sandro Hawke wrote:

>
>> http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes/RDFPlainLIteral.html
>
>> Please see the redraft I just posted a link to. That is exactly the
>> idea: that there should be an institutionalized confusion between RDF
>> Plain literals and rdf:PlainLIteral literals, in that the latter are
>> declared syntactically illegal and the former treated just as being
>> the latter, semantically. Put another way, current syntax is
>> re-defined to have the latter semantics. This isnt strict RDF, it  
>> is a
>> semantic extension; but its such a small and useful one that I bet it
>> will instantly become a de facto standard, and OWL and RIF are  
>> already
>> semantic extensions anyway. And it completely eliminates the
>> interoperability problems.
>
> +1    I'm very happy with your draft.  Nice work!
>
> One small caveat.  The i18n paragraph was hammered out at considerable
> length, with Addison Phillips and Michael Sperberg-McQueen.  We should
> probably keep it, maybe with a few words making it clear that this is
> "just so you don't misunderstand" stuff, and that the issues are  
> exactly
> the same as with RDF Plain Literals.  I think the point is that folks
> often misunderstand i18n and since we're in that territory, it's a  
> good
> chance to point people in the right direction.

OK with me.

Pat

>
>     -- Sandro
>
>
>

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