Re: datatypes and MT

Pat Hayes wrote:

[...]


>>
>> Given an appropriate schema, we can infer that "16" is in decimal and 
>> denotes the integer 16.  However to do this, we need to process the 
>> schema information.
> 
> 
> No, we just need to know that (for example) the range of eg:size is 
> xsd:decimal.


Yes.

[...]


> 
> I confess I don't follow this point. Both schemes can represent 
> everything in RDF/XML, I think. (If we only use range to specify 
> datatyping, at any rate.)


Yes.  Maybe I'm making too big a deal of range processing.

Brian

Received on Friday, 9 November 2001 04:59:31 UTC