Re: Denotation of datatype values

At 12:38 08/04/2002 +0300, Patrick Stickler wrote:

>Jeremy's recent posts regarding entailments between the idioms
>suggests that there is an important question that seems to need
>answering, namely, do we wish/expect/need that a given datatype
>value (member of a datatype value space) always and only be
>denoted by a single node in the graph? (as opposed to it being
>denoted by a combination of nodes or statements such as the
>inline idiom with an rdfd:range assertion).

That question doesn't seem to me to accurately capture the concern.  The 
answer is obviously no, since several bnodes in a graph may denote the same 
value, but that does not get at the essence of Jeremy's issue.

Doesn't Jeremy's entailment capture the issue well enough?

Brian

Received on Monday, 8 April 2002 08:01:08 UTC