- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2001 08:59:45 -0600
- To: Graham Klyne <Graham.Klyne@MIMEsweeper.com>
- CC: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
Graham Klyne wrote: > > At 02:20 AM 11/6/01 -0600, Dan Connolly wrote: [...] > >You've got an inconsistency there. "10" isn't an integer. > > Aha... > > In which case, I think you're flying in the face of existing RDF > practice. Well, yes, I'm aware that folks say things like the string "Dan Connolly" wrote a mail message and I hope we can show/convince folks that this is not a good idea. > I, and I think many others, have certainly assumed that one can > write something like: > > <ex:subj> <ex:prop> "10" . > > To express the idea (to an application that knows about the vocabulary) > that <ex:subj> has a property <ex:prop> with the integer value 10. I expected that folks wrote, in the schema for ex:prop: ex:prop relates something to a numeral (i.e. a string) which should be interpreted as an integer > E.g. what you are suggesting will break aspects of CC/PP and UAProf. Ouch; really? -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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