Re: What can/should/must we do with rdf:PlainLiteral?

On 20 Jun 2011, at 09:08, Andy Seaborne wrote:
> We *may* wish to change terminology when we have decided what to do about language tags

Yes.

> but I think the terminology is out there and well used

Yes.

> so we should proceed with great caution.  The time for changing terminology just because it is "better" is long gone.

The term “Plain Literal” *will* still be present in the RDF 1.1 Concepts document, for exactly the reason you state, *at least* in a Note. We will discuss this in more detail when a decision regarding language tags has been made; right now it's premature.

At any rate, I take your message as a vote that the class containing all xsd:strings and all language-tagged strings should be called rdf:PlainLiteral as it reflects established terminology.

Best,
Richard

Received on Monday, 20 June 2011 11:29:50 UTC