- From: Aaron Swartz <me@aaronsw.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 17:04:41 -0500
- To: pat hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Cc: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
On Thursday, July 12, 2001, at 04:25 PM, pat hayes wrote:
>> 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* ?
Yes, I think so. Sorry if I was confusing.
> Can you expand on what you mean a little more, maybe with a
> simple example? Thanks.
<data:,foo> merely represents the characters 'f', 'o', and 'o'
in order. It does not represent a concept, thing, etc. It means
nothing more than those three characters.
Does that make more sense?
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