- From: David Wood <dpw@talis.com>
- Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 08:16:46 -0400
- To: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>
- Cc: Andy Seaborne <andy.seaborne@epimorphics.com>, "public-rdf-wg@w3.org" <public-rdf-wg@w3.org>
On May 6, 2011, at 7:44, Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org> wrote: > On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 09:33 +0100, Andy Seaborne wrote: >> >> I wonder if most people would be happen if we emphasised that it's >> the >> value that matters. xsd:string and simple literal have the same >> value, >> as do 00123 and +123. > > I guess it depends what you mean by 'emphasise'... > > I was shocked to discover SPARQL cared about the difference, and thought > it was a grave mistake at the time (but I didn't notice until it was too > late). I had assumed everyone already knew you should just care about > the value, and that every API should convert for you, hiding the > difference. But I was wrong, and I don't really know how to get people > to use the "Semantic Web" technologies at a "semantic" level. +1. Of course, it would help if we standardized it that way :) Regards, Dave > > -- Sandro > > > >
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