Re: big issue (2001-09-28#13)

At 01:26 PM 10/1/01 +0100, Jeremy Carroll wrote:


>I am less than comfortable with the direction of
>
>Graham's
>http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-rdfcore-wg/2001Oct/0002.html
>
>Jan's
>http://ioctl.org/rdf/literals
>
>which both seem to make much more of a Literal than M&S.
>
>Our job is constrained by the charter.
>
>I see our job as making the best sense we can out of M&S and schema, and not
>reinventing RDF from the ground up.

I agree with the last, and don't believe either approach was "reinventing" 
RDF, just taking a different view on clarification of M&S.

Specifically, the ideas I suggested do not in any way change the RDF/XML 
syntax, and I think they are consistent with the RDF M&S triple-based 
"model" (arguable, more so than M&S itself).  I raised my points, in part, 
because M&S seems to be contradictory on what a literal is, so something 
has to give.

I can see my proposal is probably inconsistent with existing code, so may 
not be a good direction.  I don't think that's so true of Jan's approach.

#g



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