- From: Graham Klyne <Graham.Klyne@MIMEsweeper.com>
- Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 14:20:57 +0100
- To: pat hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Cc: Sergey Melnik <melnik@db.stanford.edu>, w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
At 09:00 PM 8/20/02 -0700, pat hayes wrote: >>Are we closing off any important extensibility paths if we go for tidy >>literals? > >With regards to this last point, yes. DAML and OIL and probably OWL will >need the flexibility of allowing (semantically) untidy literals, and if we >forbid them then the DAML spec will need to be rewritten and OWL will >probably no longer base itself on RDF (or, an alternative scenario, the >Webont WG will split apart into two rival groups which will produce >incompatible standards. It is perilously close to this already.) I didn't realize this. I think it may be an important datum. #g ------------------- Graham Klyne <GK@NineByNine.org>
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