- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 10:59:37 -0500
- To: "Geoff Chappell" <gchappell@intellidimension.com>
- Cc: <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
>[To Eric Jain:] >One surprise was that though the ontology specifies range of props to be >xmlschema datatypes, in the files they're actually plain literals. That >caused a re-load when I realized that (because I wanted them to be typed so >they'd be indexed as such). FWIW, you could uniformly type all plain literals (without an XML lang tag) with xsd:string. The RDF spec sanctions this (in the semantics, anyway.) The only possible cost is that if the plain literal had an XML lang tag you will lose the tag, if that matters. Pat Hayes -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32502 (850)291 0667 cell phayesAT-SIGNihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
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