- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 16:04:46 -0500
- To: Alex Hall <alexhall@revelytix.com>
- Cc: Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>, RDF Working Group WG <public-rdf-wg@w3.org>
On May 13, 2011, at 10:52 AM, Alex Hall wrote: > The main roadblock that I can see is that a datatype maps a single lexical string to a value; you'd have to define a special notion of datatyping for xsd:string which is essentially an identity mapping of <lexical, lang> pairs. Otherwise you'd have "chat"^^xsd:string@en and "chat"^^xsd:string@fr with the same value, which won't fly. > > -Alex > > Yes, exactly, this is the heart of the matter. See my proposal in a reply to Richard to deal with this by defining an 'exceptional' extension to rdf:PlainLiteral (or, it could be another datatype altogether, but I wanted to avoid alternative-bloat.) Pat ------------------------------------------------------------ IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32502 (850)291 0667 mobile phayesAT-SIGNihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
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