- From: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 15:23:41 +0100
- To: Aaron Swartz <me@aaronsw.com>
- CC: rdf core <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
Aaron Swartz wrote: > > 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. I think one of the motivations for suggesting this change was to deal with the xml:lang issue in the way I suggested. I was just pointing out that there were problems with this. Could you just remind me what the advantages of representing literals in this way would be. Brian
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