- From: Graham Klyne <Graham.Klyne@MIMEsweeper.com>
- Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 14:18:13 +0100
- To: Patrick Stickler <patrick.stickler@nokia.com>
- Cc: RDF Core <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
At 04:03 PM 4/9/02 +0300, Patrick Stickler wrote: >On 2002-04-09 13:39, "ext Graham Klyne" <Graham.Klyne@MIMEsweeper.com> >wrote: > > > At 10:19 AM 4/9/02 +0300, Patrick Stickler wrote: > >> I.e. given only > >> > >> Jane ex:age "25" . > >> > >> "25" alone does not denote the value twenty-five. But given > >> > >> ex:age rdfd:range xsd:integer . > >> Jane ex:age "25" . > >> > >> then "25" and the rdfd:range assertion *together* denote the > >> value twenty-five. Yet still, "25" alone does not denote the > >> value twenty-five. There is no single node in the graph which > >> denotes the value twenty-five. The value remains implicit in > >> the datatype interpretation. > > > > According to my understanding of the datatyping proposal, there is > > _nothing_ in this graph that denotes the value 25. All that is required is > > that there exists some value, not necessarily denoted by anything in the > > graph, that is related to the string "25" by the datatype > > "xsd:integer". (And according to our shared understanding of xsd:integer, > > that "some value" is 25.) > >I agree. I perhaps am using the word "denote" incorrectly here. > >The question is whether we need/want there always to be >"something in the graph" to denote the value 25 when, based >on our shared understanding, we know we're talking about >the value 25. OK. Given: (a) The above graph is valid, (b) Nothing in the above graph denotes the value 25, and (c) Our shared understanding of xsd:integer lets us know that Janes ex:age property is related to the value 25 ... then I'd say the answer to your question is no. #g ------------------- Graham Klyne <GK@NineByNine.org>
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