Re: rdf-text telecon agenda

On May 27, 2009, at 8:37 AM, Peter F.Patel-Schneider wrote:

> From: Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: rdf-text telecon agenda
> Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 08:31:19 -0500
>
>> Hi Peter,
>>
>> A little elaboration on a couple of points would be helpful
>>
>>>>>
>>>>>      * Pat's approach using RDF'
>>
>>> Not completely the right way to go, in my view.
>>
>> Can you say what the issue you see is?
>
> Pat's proposal appears to be making a change to RDF itself, which I do
> not support.

1. Reinterpreting RDF plain literals is a change in RDF, like it or not
2. The point,therefore, is to not change RDF but rather to define a  
slightly modified RDF' and give it a name (in fact, call it "plain  
typed RDF") in order to distinguish it from RDF.

Pat

>
>>> My last preference would be to make statements where complete  
>>> compliance
>>> would require all RDF applications to change.  This is what the  
>>> current
>>> document says.
>>
>> What in the current document makes this the case?
>
> Any language that says a particular previously-legal construct MUST  
> NOT
> appear in RDF graphs is making a demand of *all* RDF applications.   
> The
> precise wording is
>
> 	typed rdf:text literals MUST NOT occur explicitly in published
> 	RDF content ...
>
>> Thanks,
>> Alan
>
> peter
>
>
>

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