- From: Sergey Melnik <melnik@db.stanford.edu>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 14:33:36 -0700
- To: Aaron Swartz <me@aaronsw.com>
- CC: RDF Core <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
Aaron Swartz wrote: > > Just to get the creative juices flowing, here's a strawman > proposal for xml:lang: > > A literal with xml:lang is turned into an anonymous node with > xml:lang and rdf:value properties. > > <rdf:Description> > <rdf:value xml:lang="en">foo</rdf:value> > </rdf:Description> > > becomes: > > [ rdf:value [ xml:lang "en" ; rdf:value "foo" ] ] . > > or in psuedo-N-Triples: > > _:desc rdf:value _:literal . > _:literal xml:lang "en" . > _:literal rdf:value "foo" . > > Thoughts? Problems? Two problems: 1. By using the above approach you are effectively building on (and endorsing) anonymous nodes, and the rdf:value property. I don't think we have a agreed understanding on those two things yet. 2. Applications cannot just ignore xml:lang. Instead, the apps must deal with a special case of identifying the "anonymous" node and tracing its rdf:value property. Sergey
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