- From: Markus Lanthaler <markus.lanthaler@gmx.net>
- Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 18:29:17 +0100
- To: "'Richard Cyganiak'" <richard@cyganiak.de>, "'Andy Seaborne'" <andy.seaborne@epimorphics.com>
- Cc: <public-rdf-wg@w3.org>
On Wednesday, November 14, 2012 4:34 PM, Andy Seaborne > > [ rdf:value "....."^^rdf:HTML ; > ex:language "en" > ] > > c.f. units. Yeah, that's the way to work around it. It would be nice if rdf:language would exist for that (I know there exists dc:language and many more). On Wednesday, November 14, 2012 6:17 PM, Richard Cyganiak wrote: > > > There are certainly a lot of other data types that could profit from > > language tags, just think of Markdown, Textile, all the Wiki > syntaxes, etc. > > yet there's no way language-tag them. That's exactly what triggered > my > > question. > > Well, back in 2004, W3C still believed that in the future everything > would be XML and therefore would already support language annotation. > > And today there's no way of retrofitting language tags onto typed > literals without breaking all existing parsers and stores, therefore > it's more than unlikely to happen. OK.. fair enough. Thanks a lot, Markus -- Markus Lanthaler @markuslanthaler
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