Re: datatypes and MT

• From: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
• Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2001 16:35:06 +0000
• To: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
• CC: Pat Hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>, w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org, pfps@research.bell-labs.com
• Message-ID: <3BE41CBA.1080404@hplb.hpl.hp.com>

Dan Connolly wrote:
[...]


> 
> 	<rdf:Description rdf:about="#me">
> 	  <shoeSize>
>             <integer decimalRep="10"/>
> 	  </shoeSize>
>         </rdf:Description>
> 
> To fill in the details... let dt:
> be the namespace of XML Schema primitive datatypes,
> and let rdfs:str be a new property
> that relates XML Schema datatype to strings;
> it's unambiguous over each of the primitive datatypes;
> in the case of dt:string, it's the identity relation.
> 
> 	<rdf:Description rdf:about="#me">
> 	  <shoeSize>
>             <dt:decimal rdfs:str="10"/>
> 	  </shoeSize>
>         </rdf:Description>


This isn't the same as above is it?  In your first example I could have extended 
it to read:

  	<rdf:Description rdf:about="#me">
  	  <shoeSize>
              <integer decimalRep="10" hexadecimalrep="A"/>
  	  </shoeSize>
          </rdf:Description>

I don't seem to be able to do that with your second example.  Are there 
advantages to that which you have written over:

  	<rdf:Description rdf:about="#me">
  	  <shoeSize dt:decimal="10"/>
         </rdf:Description>

or if you want the type property explicit, we need to invent a URI for the value 
space of the xsd datatype:

         <rdf:Description rdf:about="#me">
           <shoeSize>
             <eg:integer dt:decimal="10"/>
           </shoeSize>
         </rdf:Description>

Brian

Received on Saturday, 3 November 2001 11:39:39 UTC