- From: Dave Beckett <dave@dajobe.org>
- Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:01:43 -0800
- To: Jie Bao <baojie@gmail.com>
- CC: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>, semantic-web@w3.org
Jie Bao wrote: > On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org> wrote: >> So, what should W3C standardize next in the area of RDF, if anything? > > replace (with backward compatibility assurance) the use of plain > literals with rdf:PlainLiteral [1] - this datatype is defined in the > RDF namespace anyway. > > [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-text/ rdf:PlainLiteral is a hilarious bad idea Don't use it for anything and definitely don't put it into core RDF. If you want to know more - primarily because it cannot encode all RDF plain/typed literals (it is incomplete just like RDF/XML) and has no rules for escaping the characters used for separators (@, <, >). Hilarious. Dave
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