- From: Garret Wilson <garret@globalmentor.com>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:36:45 -0700
- To: cr <_@whats-your.name>, Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
cr wrote: > theres a few issues in terms of topography - when to use the resource as the uri (123 or :cat), when to use a 'value' property on the resource (eg URI is a hash of a larger string value), and when to you use the dereferenced content of the URI as the value.. Ah, but be careful here. The "dereferenced content" of the resource identified by the URI <rdfliteral:123;xsd:literal> is the value 123, *not* the string "123". The "dereferenced content" of the resource identified by the URI <http://example.org/presidents/GeorgeWBush> is the person currently in the White House, *not* the string "George W. Bush". When talking about Resources Formerly Known as Literals, it doesn't make any sense to say "dereferenced content". The lexical form you might have used in some particular serialization as a shortcut to the resource's URI is not the "dereferenced content" of the identified resource (except in a singular case: all resources with rdf:type xsd:String, formally known as rdf:datatype xsd:string). Garret
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