- From: Sergey Melnik <melnik@db.stanford.edu>
- Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 14:43:33 -0800
- To: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- CC: Patrick.Stickler@nokia.com, w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
Jeremy Carroll wrote: > > Sergey: > > > > > > <complex realDecimal="1.0" imaginaryDecimal="2.0"/> > > > > > > as in > > > > > > _x rdf:type complex > > > _x realDecimal "1.0" > > > _x imaginaryDecimal "2.0" > > > > > > > > [... snip ...] > Patrick: > > > > Right. Such as <complex>1.0/2.0</complex>, eh? > > > > Charter: > [[[ > Specifically, the RDF Core Working Group is not chartered to develop a > separate data typing language that duplicates facilities provided by XML > Schema data types > ]]] > > XML Schema provides a mechanism for defining complex hence we MUST use that. XML Schema provides a mechanism for defining complex datatypes (it's not going to be easy to use such custom types defined by means of XML Schema though). I referred to complex numbers, just as an example; to my knowledge, XML Schema does not define complex numbers. Sergey
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