- From: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 16:23:51 -0000
- To: "Patrick Stickler" <patrick.stickler@nokia.com>, "RDF Core" <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
> > We could allow arbitrary typed values as node labels. e.g. in the B10 > > example the nodes are labelled with the number 10.5 and not > with the string > > "10.5" nor the string "10,5". > > Unfortunately, Jeremy, such an approach cannot work in practice. > > Otherwise all RDF parsers must support all arbitrary datatypes > and the RDF graph must provide a *lexical* representation > (albeit canonical) for all values of all arbitrary datatypes?... > I was (perhaps not explicitly) expecting that the action for unknown datatypes would be to use the TDL pair (datatype uri + lexical string) as the (representation of the) value. Jeremy
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