- From: Axel Polleres <axel.polleres@deri.org>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:05:53 +0100
- To: Jos de Bruijn <debruijn@inf.unibz.it>
- CC: Rule Interchange Format Working Group WG <public-rif-wg@w3.org>
Jos de Bruijn wrote: > > Rule Interchange Format Working Group Issue Tracker wrote: >> ISSUE-88 (string subclass text): rdf:text document redefines xs:string as a subclass of rdf:text > > This is not entirely true. > Section 3.1 of [1] states that "specifications that use rdf:text MAY > choose to interpret the [string] datatypes ... yes, the intention of the wording was to leave this to the implementation, although I see that this might need more discussion. > in a slightly different > way". So far, OWL 2 has opted to do so; RIF has not. yes. > This is a source > of incompatibility that we have not really discussed so far, but we > should discuss it together with the other sources of incompatibility > (e.g., integer versus float) at the face-to-face. > >> http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/track/issues/88 fine with me. >> Raised by: Christopher Welty >> On product: >> >> The xs:string datatype is a datatype defined in XML Schema Datatypes [XML Schema Datatypes] as having the value space equal to the set of all strings. Thus, the value space of xs:string is not a subset of the value space of rdf:text, which may cause problems for certain applications of this specification. A similar problem arises with XML Schema datatypes that are derived from xs:string. >> >> >> > -- Dr. Axel Polleres Digital Enterprise Research Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway email: axel.polleres@deri.org url: http://www.polleres.net/
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