- 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 :-) -- Martyn Horner <martyn.horner@profium.com> Profium, Les Espaces de Sophia, Immeuble Delta, B.P. 037, F-06901 Sophia-Antipolis, France Tel. +33 (0)4.93.95.31.44 Fax. +33 (0)4.93.95.52.58 Mob. +33 (0)6.21.01.54.56 Internet: http://www.profium.com
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