- From: Andy Seaborne <andy.seaborne@epimorphics.com>
- Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 11:26:05 +0100
- To: public-rdf-wg@w3.org
On 17/04/11 12:02, Ivan Herman wrote: > > 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, >> >> Yes. >> >>> and its value space[2] are pairs of the form<string,language-tag> >> >> Not quite. According to [2], the value space are all<string,lang-tag> pairs *and* all strings. >> >>> Ie, datatype("chat"@en) would return rdf:PlainLiteral. >> >> 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 >> >> datatype("chat") == rdf:PlainLiteral > > Correct. Would that create huge problems? Yes. Existing queries will break. Andy > > Ivan > > >> >> Best, >> Richard > > > ---- > Ivan Herman, W3C Semantic Web Activity Lead > Home: http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/ > mobile: +31-641044153 > PGP Key: http://www.ivan-herman.net/pgpkey.html > FOAF: http://www.ivan-herman.net/foaf.rdf > > > > >
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