- From: Jos de Bruijn <debruijn@inf.unibz.it>
- Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:58:16 +0100
- To: "Phillips, Addison" <addison@amazon.com>
- CC: Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>, Jie Bao <baojie@gmail.com>, Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>, "public-rdf-text@w3.org" <public-rdf-text@w3.org>, "team-rif-chairs@w3.org" <team-rif-chairs@w3.org>, "team-owl-chairs@w3.org" <team-owl-chairs@w3.org>
Phillips, Addison wrote: >>> Hi Jie, >>> The issue wasn't so much the note, but the actual definition of >> the functions >>> fn:text-length >>> fn:matches-language-range >> I agree that these two particular functions should be dropped, but >> for a >> different reason: they are redundant. Their functionality can be >> achieved by extracting the relevant components from the rdf:text >> literal >> and then doing string comparison. > > I think it would be quite problematic to drop fn:matches-language-range. There is no other mechanism for correctly comparing language tags and ranges. It is not a simple string comparison. You are right. fn:matches-language-range is indeed not redundant Best, Jos > I agree that 'text-length' may be redundant. > >>> These are functions that it appears the rdf:text spec defines, >> but >>> they are defined in the namespace that XQuery controls. So my > > The I18N working group intends to bring this issue to XQuery. However, if necessary, rdf:text should define the function, possibly in a different namespace from fn:. > > Addison > > > Addison Phillips > Globalization Architect -- Lab126 > Chair -- W3C Internationalization WG > > Internationalization is not a feature. > It is an architecture. > > > -- +43 1 58801 18470 debruijn@inf.unibz.it Jos de Bruijn, http://www.debruijn.net/ ---------------------------------------------- Many would be cowards if they had courage enough. - Thomas Fuller
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