- From: <Patrick.Stickler@nokia.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 22:44:51 +0200
- To: melnik@db.stanford.edu, phayes@ai.uwf.edu
- Cc: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
> > OK, though I think we need to be careful about having the strings in
> > the interpretation, since the X and P schemes probably won't have
> > anything denoting those.
>
> Right. I understand that strings may still exist somewhere in the
> interpretation even if the corresponding graph does not contain any
> symbols that denote those strings. Is this correct?
This is true for the X model. Even though double quotes are not
used, it is 100% explicit where the "strings" are according to
the notation syntax.
The only strings are the node labels.
> The example goes a bit farther than just talking about numbers. Age,
> weight, months etc. popped up on the list several times in the context
> of datatyping, and I think it is important to clarify what exactly
> different graphs and syntaxes try to express in each specific example.
> In other words, I feel it is important to distinguish whether
> the token
> "14" in (_Robby p:weightKg "14") denotes a string, a number,
> or a mass.
Doesn't the type associated with the value tell us this?
I.e. if any interpretation other than string is expected,
it must be indicated by a type association, either locally
or by rdfs:range.
Thus, given
_X --p:weightKg--> "14"
_X --p:weightKg--> "14" --rdf:type--> xsd:string
_X --p:weightKg--> "14" --rdf:type--> xsd:integer
The value "14" in the first two cases are interpreted
as strings and only the in the latter case as an integer.
Eh?
Patrick
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