- From: Graham Klyne <Graham.Klyne@Baltimore.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 17:36:36 +0100
- To: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Cc: rdf core <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
At 11:40 AM 7/11/01 +0100, Brian McBride wrote: >FYI, the following can be found in section 6 of M&S: > > The xml:lang attribute may be used as defined by [XML] to associate a > language with the property value. There is no specific data model > representation for xml:lang (i.e., it adds no triples to the data model); > the language of a literal is considered by RDF to be a part of the > literal. > An application may ignore language tagging of a string. All RDF > applications > must specify whether or not language tagging in literals is significant; > that is, whether or not language is considered when performing string > matching or other processing. > >at > >http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2001Jun/att-0021/00-part#221 FWIW, I think this is broken and will require some kind of fix (as opposed to clarification). I'm agnostic about the nature of the fix. The reason I think it is broken is that I think that RDF applications cannot be required to operate on anything other than that which appears in the "data model". Thus, I think that if xml:lang MAY be significant then it MUST appear in the "data model". #g ------------------------------------------------------------ Graham Klyne Baltimore Technologies Strategic Research Content Security Group <Graham.Klyne@Baltimore.com> <http://www.mimesweeper.com> <http://www.baltimore.com> ------------------------------------------------------------
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