- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 17:16:35 -0500
- To: "Ron Daniel" <rdaniel@interwoven.com>
- Cc: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
>Pat Hayes said: >> [Ron Daniel said] >> >2) In RDF 2, let each occurrence of a literal be a prince/b/whatever_node, >> > identified in whatever way we decide to handle the things we used to >> > call anonymous resources. >> >> I don't like that. I want to label the node with the literal itself, >> just like we do now, not be forced into writing two nodes where one >> will do. > >How would we tell the difference between homographs (e.g. 2001-10 >as a month vs. an integer expression)? > See Peter's suggestion, by using rdfs:range, for example. Or, if literals could be subjects, by using rdf:type directly. First way: aaa integerproperty "200110" integerproperty rdfs:range xsd:integer second way (using Ntriples++) aaa someproperty _:node1:"200110" _:node1 rdf:type xsd:integer >..... >So presumably if we have multiple "lll" literals, we would >distinguish them with >_:1:lll >_:2:lll >etc. ? Right, exactly. See http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-rdfcore-wg/2001Oct/0263.html If you didn't need to distinguish them, you don't need to do this, but it would be an option. Pat -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola, FL 32501 (850)202 4440 fax phayes@ai.uwf.edu http://www.coginst.uwf.edu/~phayes
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