- From: Frank Manola <fmanola@mitre.org>
- Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 19:07:35 -0400
- To: Dave Beckett <dave.beckett@bristol.ac.uk>
- CC: Patrick.Stickler@nokia.com, w3c-rdfcore-wg <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
Dave Beckett wrote: >>>>Patrick.Stickler@nokia.com said: >>>> >> >>Oops. My bad. If untyped literals are untidy, I guess we need some >>distinct names for them ... >> > > Well, no actually. > > If literals are untidy and only in the object position, then you > don't need to give them ids in N-Triples. If at some point literals > were allowed in the subject position, then you will have to give them > ids. We haven't made that decision yet, and N-Triples only needs to > change when that happens, not before. > > And delete the qnames. > > I thought the group already agreed that a document convention of > using 'xsd:decimal', 'rdf:type' and so on for the appropriate URI is > OK. It happens the primer and MT use that in N-Triples, the syntax > WD doesn't. We did, but I think we refer to them as "triples" (or some other generic reference), not "N-triples", since we didn't want to go to the trouble of changing the "N-triples" definition. --Frank -- Frank Manola The MITRE Corporation 202 Burlington Road, MS A345 Bedford, MA 01730-1420 mailto:fmanola@mitre.org voice: 781-271-8147 FAX: 781-271-875
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