- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 15:38:22 -0500
- To: Aaron Swartz <aswartz@upclink.com>
- Cc: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
>On Monday, September 17, 2001, at 03:23 PM, Pat Hayes wrote: > >>But that's syntactically illegal. In fact it is impossible to say >>that literal has any properties in RDF, so why do we have a class >>in RDFS of things that we aren't allowed to say are in a class? > >Not sure if this sheds light, but danbri is fond of quoting this >from the schema spec: > >[[[ >Although the RDF data model does not allow for explicit properties >(such as an rdf:type property) to be ascribed to Literals (atomic >values), we nevertheless consider these entities to be members of >classes (e.g., the string "John Smith" is considered to be a member >of the class rdfs:Literal.) > >Note: We expect future work in RDF and XML data-typing to provide >clarifications in this area. >]]] > >I think this is a bit of a kludge. Not just a bit, but a kludge, whole and entire. Thanks for pointing it out, though. Pat > >-- >[ "Aaron Swartz" ; <mailto:me@aaronsw.com> ; <http://www.aaronsw.com/> ] -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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