Re: bad language tags

On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 10:47 AM, Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us> wrote:

> (I think we may have decided this already, but can't find the decision.)
>
> If some RDF has a language-tagged literal with a bad language tag (not
> conforming to section 2.2.9 of BPC 47), is that
>
> 1. an RDF syntax error
> 2. syntactically legal but inconsistent (because the literal has no legal
> value)
> 3. legal and consistent (because even a bad language tag is still an RDF
> language tag) ?
>


+1 to 3, I'm unaware of any implementation that does 1 or 2.



>
> Pat
>
> PS.  If we have to decide this, I vote for 3 as being less work to
> implement, and on the grounds that RDF's job isn't to check on bad data.
>
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