what is Option 5?

• From: Peter F.Patel-Schneider <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>
• Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 09:00:24 -0400
• To: <public-rdf-text@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <20090529.090024.266461168.pfps@research.bell-labs.com>

There seems to be a bit of confusion as to what Option 5 is, so I
thought that I would write a blunt description of it, as opposed to the
scholastic ones that I've already written.   

What does Option 5 not do?

- it doesn't change the RDF semantics (at all)
- it doesn't change RDF graphs (at all!)
- it doesn't change RDF concepts (at all!!)
- it doesn't change plain literals
- it doesn't change typed literals
- it doesn't change anything to do with xsd:string 

What does Option 5 do?

- like all other options it defines a new datatype, rdf:O)->
- it says that if you want to *write down* a typed literal from this
  datatype, for example in RDF/XML, but also in other syntaxes for RDF,
  then the way you do that is to use a plain literal
- and also for SPARQL
- thus applications *MUST NOT* use literals with datatype rdf:O)-> in
  RDF and SPARQL syntaxes 

That's it.




Don't like it?  Fine, here's Option -1.

Option -1:
  OWL 2 will use owl:text instead of rdf:O)->

peter

Received on Friday, 29 May 2009 13:02:01 UTC