Re: Additional terminology

On 26 Apr 2011, at 22:58, Nathan wrote:
>>>> plain literals without language tag
>>> The need to describe this thing was so common in SPARQL 1.0 that Eric proposed "simple literal" for this.
>> Perhaps this particular class of literals is particularly prominent in SPARQL, but from my reading of the RDF Recommendation Set it doesn't actually occur all that often.
>> “Simple literal” vs “plain literal” isn't very clear naming.
> 
> string vs text?

Well, but “simple literals” are supposed to be a subkind of “plain literals”, which are distinct from “typed literals”, so calling them “string literals” when they are supposed to be “untyped” isn't very clear either ...

What a nice mess we're in :-)

Richard

Received on Tuesday, 26 April 2011 22:22:39 UTC