Re: Priorities for F2F (completion of ACTION: 2001-06-22#4)

>On Wednesday, July 11, 2001, at 06:18  AM, Bill de hÓra wrote:
>
>>>o the WG agrees that URI's can be assigned to denote literals.
>>
>>Is this to say: the wg indicates that people may assign URIs
>>to Literals in their RDF data? I think I would be fine with
>>this, but I still don't understand what is being described.
>>Is a Literal simply a resource that can be present in the
>>web (ie on a computer)?
>
>A literal is a resource representing the literal -- the string.

Sorry, I can't follow this (in fact, I can't even parse it :-). Do 
you mean a literal is a resource that represents *itself* ?

Can you expand on what you mean a little more, maybe with a simple 
example? Thanks.

Pat Hayes

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