On Apr 17, 2011, at 12:49 , Richard Cyganiak wrote:
> On 17 Apr 2011, at 08:45, Ivan Herman wrote:
>> My understanding is that rdf:plainLiteral is a Datatype (ie, it can be used as part of datatype reasoning in RDF, OWL, or RIF) which is not the case of plain literals,
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> Yes.
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>> and its value space[2] are pairs of the form <string,language-tag>
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> Not quite. According to [2], the value space are all <string,lang-tag> pairs *and* all strings.
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>> Ie, datatype("chat"@en) would return rdf:PlainLiteral.
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> This would be consistent with the definition of the datatype. But since the value space of rdf:PlainLiteral also contains all simple strings, the same could be said for returning
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> datatype("chat") == rdf:PlainLiteral
Correct. Would that create huge problems?
Ivan
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> Best,
> Richard
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