- From: Graham Klyne <Graham.Klyne@MIMEsweeper.com>
- Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 15:43:24 +0000
- To: Sergey Melnik <melnik@db.stanford.edu>
- Cc: RDFCore WG <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
At 08:19 PM 10/31/01 -0800, Sergey Melnik wrote: ><SUG3> was to make the interpretation of each literal symbol fixed and >determined by its textual contents. Pat and Peter P.-S. (who provided >valuable input as a non-member) propose a different approach, in which >the meaning of literal symbols depends on the context where they >appear (this context may be limited to a single statement, I'm not >sure about that). To my knowledge, Pat is still working on a new draft >of MT that relies on such context-dependent interpretation of >literals. > >I'd like to ask Pat to try to wrap up some ideas (even if sketchy) and >share them with the WG in form of examples and illustrations. We >should attempt to achieve a common understanding of the options that >are open at this point. Datatyping is critical in the sense that >almost every single developer will need to deal with it. Therefore, it >is essential that even persons who are far from logics and model >theory (like some of us) understand the main points. > >In any case, tomorrow I'm going to summarize my revised understanding >of the tradeoffs between a `straightforward' and Pat's/Peter's >approach. My voice also weighed in against the approach of completely fixed interpretation of literals: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-rdfcore-wg/2001Oct/0572.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-rdfcore-wg/2001Oct/0602.html #g ------------------------------------------------------------ Graham Klyne MIMEsweeper Group Strategic Research <http://www.mimesweeper.com> <Graham.Klyne@MIMEsweeper.com> ------------------------------------------------------------
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