- From: Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>
- Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 21:05:55 +0100
- To: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
- Cc: W3C RDF WG <public-rdf-wg@w3.org>
Hi Ivan, On 13 Jun 2012, at 11:22, Ivan Herman wrote: > the current document does not say that the XMlLiteral and the HTML datatypes are optional. Well, technically speaking it was already there, but in a rather subtle way. I've now added a sentence to the introduction paragraph of the datatypes section [1]: [[ The list of datatypes supported by an implementation is determined by its datatype map. ]] The definition of datatype map [2] now reads in its entirety: [[ A datatype map is an implementation-defined set of <IRI, datatype> pairs such that no IRI appears twice in the set and the IRI denotes the datatype. It can be seen as a function from IRIs to datatypes. If a datatype map contains the IRI http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#XMLLiteral, then it must be paired with the datatype rdf:XMLLiteral. If a datatype map contains the IRI http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#HTML, then it must be paired with the datatype rdf:HTML. If a datatype map contains an IRI of the form http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#xxx, then it must be paired with the RDF-compatible XSD type named xsd:xxx. Specifications that conform to RDF may impose additional constraints on the datatype map, for example, require support for certain datatypes. ]] I think this makes clear that RDF Concepts, as such, does not require support for any datatypes. Best, Richard [1] http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/rdf/raw-file/default/rdf-concepts/index.html#section-Datatypes [2] http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/rdf/raw-file/default/rdf-concepts/index.html#dfn-datatype-map
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