- From: Martyn Horner <martyn.horner@profium.com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 13:27:10 +0200
- To: Dave Beckett <dave.beckett@bristol.ac.uk>
- CC: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
Dave Beckett wrote:
>
> >>>Brian McBride said:
> > At 09:26 24/04/2002 -0500, Pat Hayes wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >
> > >"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."
> >
> >
> > Where do we define literal equality?
>
> Nowhere at present; we additionally don't define what a literal is,
> according to our decisiions. The existing MT talks about string
> literals (since we postponed XML stuff till later) and uses string
> equality. The answer is captured in the issues list from various minutes.
Thanks for the summary. Marvellous stuff, Dave, except...
> In terms of N-Triples
>
> "abc" equals "abc"
>
> "abc" does not equal "abc"
"abc" does not equal "abcd" - surely - or I have totally lost the
plot :-)
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