Re: notation for literals

I think DaveB was working on a syntax extension following the F2F...

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At 09:26 AM 4/24/02 -0500, Pat Hayes wrote:
>Is there an approved way to indicate the three parts of a literal in 
>Ntriples? Or should we just take the line that while literals are defined 
>to have three parts, we will proceed as though they were just strings, 
>really? I would prefer it if we had a notation which did in fact exactly 
>reflect our decisions, if only to be able to avoid having weasel-wording 
>in the spec. For example, right now the MT is obliged to say something 
>like this:
>
>"An RDF literal has three parts (a bit, a character string, and a language 
>tag [@@reference@@]), but we will treat them simply as character strings, 
>since the other parts of the literal play no role in the model theory."
>
>which is tacky, to say the least.
>
>BTW, what is the normative reference to go in there?
>
>Pat
>
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Received on Thursday, 25 April 2002 03:49:53 UTC