- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 19:05:11 -0600
- To: jos.deroo.jd@belgium.agfa.com
- Cc: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
>The main point is that the object in > :s eg:shoeSize "10". >is *not* a string object but some-thing that >can be further characterized.... I entirely agree, that is exactly what the MT extension says. What a literal denotes is not the string itself (unless its a strong literal, of course), but something in the semantic domain. >... as having a >rdfs:str property with string value "10" Ah, but that seems to me to be both unnecessary and pernicious. Unnecessary since there is no need to say explicitly that the thing denoted by a name is denoted by the name; you know that because you used the name to denote it, whether the name is literal or not. This is like insisting that instead of saying 'Joe' I have to say 'a person whose name is "Joe" ' all the time. Pernicious, because *any* kind of 'uniform' mapping from things to the strings that denote them cannot be sustained, because naming is intrinsically many-one. If we must do use bnodes, then we have to use Sergey's trick of using the literal mapping name explicitly to attach the literal string to the thing it names. Pat -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola, FL 32501 (850)202 4440 fax phayes@ai.uwf.edu http://www.coginst.uwf.edu/~phayes
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