- From: Graham Klyne <Graham.Klyne@Baltimore.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 13:41:47 +0100
- To: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Cc: rdf core <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
At 02:45 PM 6/27/01 +0100, 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> > >With literals this would be: > > _:a <foo:bar> "weekend"-"en" . (I've invented this syntax for lang attrs) > _:a <foo:bar> "weekend"-"fr" . > >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> . I don't understand where that comes from. I would expect something like: _:a foo:bar data:text/plain;charset=utf-8,weekend The text/plain can be omitted. The ;charset parameter can be omitted if US-ASCII is used. I can't see any way to encode language information in a data: URL [1]. #g [1] ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2397.txt ------------------------------------------------------------ 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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