- From: pat hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 18:19:56 -0600
- To: "Patrick Stickler" <patrick.stickler@nokia.com>
- Cc: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
>The MT states: > >"The final condition indicates that RDF uses a datatype uriref in >two ways: as a name for the datatype itself, and (when used as a >class name) to indicate the class containing the elements of the >value space of the datatype." > >This sounds like datatype URIs are ambiguous, that they denote two different >things. > >I think that it would be better to say that datatype URIs denote >the datatype class, the instance of rdfs:Datatype, and that the class >extension is the value space of the datatype. that would be clearer. I will rephrase this to make it clear there is no ambiguity. Pat >I.e. the URI denotes just >one thing, the class, and that class happens to have associated with it >the semantics which capture the lexical space and L2V mapping. > >Saying the datatype URI means two things, a datatype and the value space >of the datatype as a class (set) seems to violate the fundamental >uniqueness principle of URIs. > >Or am I just confused... > >Patrick > >[Patrick Stickler, Nokia/Finland, (+358 40) 801 9690, >patrick.stickler@nokia.com] -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32501 (850)291 0667 cell phayes@ai.uwf.edu http://www.coginst.uwf.edu/~phayes s.pam@ai.uwf.edu for spam
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