- From: Graham Klyne <Graham.Klyne@Baltimore.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 15:59:09 +0100
- To: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Cc: rdf core <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
At 10:28 PM 7/16/01 +0100, Brian McBride wrote: >I took an action at the last teleconference to write up >alternative ways of resolving this issue. > >Option 1: No Change >=================== > >xml:lang attributes are considered to be 'part of' a literal. > >This is an issue that has caused some confusion amongst developers >so we would need to write up a clarification of the specifications >to explain more clearly what is going on. > >We would also need to modify n-triple to be able to represent the >languague component of a literal. > >Advantages: > >This is the simplest resolution. It makes significant change to >M&S and existing RDF processors which implemented the spec will >be unaffected. It requires only one triple to represent a >property with a literal value. > >Disadvantages: > >Does not represent language as a triple so requires special >purpose processing to support, for example query. Another possible disadvantage?: not all literals are in some language. It doesn't really make sense to specify a language for, say, a decimal number or a MIME type string. Thus, we have some literals whose interpretation is dependent on an associated language attribute, and others whose interpretation may depend on other factors. #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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