- From: Aaron Swartz <me@aaronsw.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 08:51:03 -0500
- To: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Cc: rdf core <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
On Wednesday, June 27, 2001, at 08:45 AM, Brian McBride wrote:
> I'm not sure that data uri's are in fact isomorphic with literals as
> defined in m&s. Consider:
>
> <rdf:Description>
> <foo:bar xml:lang="en">weekend</foo:bar>
> <foo:bar xml:lang="fr">weekend</foo:bar>
> </rdf:Description>
> ...<snip />
> with data uri's it would be:
>
> _:a <foo:bar> <data:text/plain;weekend> .
> <data:text/plain;weekend> <xml:lang> <data:text/plain;en> .
> <data:text/plain;weekend> <xml:lang> <data:text/plain;fr> .
>
> The later is not isomorphic with the former.
Who said it had to be this way? The outcome is dependent on the
results of the xmllang issue, but I don't believe it's a stretch
at all to see:
_:a <foo:bar> <data:text/plain;lang=en;weekend> .
_:a <foo:bar> <data:text/plain;lang=fr;weekend> .
or some other, similar syntax to do the same thing.
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