- From: Graham Klyne <Graham.Klyne@MIMEsweeper.com>
- Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 14:14:56 +0000
- To: Patrick.Stickler@nokia.com
- Cc: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
At 12:27 PM 11/6/01 +0200, Patrick.Stickler@nokia.com wrote: >Yes. The result of the query is in essence loosing the information >needed to properly interpret the actual value. An application that >does not know that it was defined according to a data type that >requires hexidecimal notation, will likely interpret it (on inspection) >as a decimal value, and thus the integrity of the knowledge is >compromised. Seems to me that the problem here is that "on inspection" is not a licensed inference method. So the problem you describe is a bug in the query client's handling of the response. (I don't dispute that having ways to get the appropriate datatype class information back as part of a query response containing literals is a good thing, but I see that as another story.) #g ------------------------------------------------------------ Graham Klyne MIMEsweeper Group Strategic Research <http://www.mimesweeper.com> <Graham.Klyne@MIMEsweeper.com> ------------------------------------------------------------
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