- 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
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