PlainLiteral spec, ruby, bidi, etc.

I have now reviewed the introduction of the current draft
of the PlainLiteral spec, and can record here with some
satisfaction that the paragraph which currently reads

     As with plain literals, this datatype can associate
     language tags with unicode strings, but it does not
     provide its own facilities for representing natural
     language utterances. Unicode bidirectional control
     characters [BIDI] may be used within these literals,
     like all other unicode characters. (Richer,
     XML-based representations such as XHTML[XHTML] and
     Ruby annotations [RUBY] can be expressed using the
     rdf:XMLLiteraldatatype.)

seems to me to satisfy my comment at item (5) of
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-owl-comments/2009Apr/0052.html
(email of 21 April 2009).  (Please don't change it -- wouldn't
it be nice to be able to set a watch list of specific paragraphs
of a spec?)

I thank the responsible working groups and the editors for
the effort they have put in to trying to resolve this issue
and find wording that addresses my issue without raising
other harder ones.

With this, I believe that all of the issues I raised in April
have been resolved.  I wish the Working Groups success with
the spec.

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Received on Wednesday, 3 June 2009 20:16:01 UTC