- From: Patrick Stickler <patrick.stickler@nokia.com>
- Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2002 18:32:20 +0200
- To: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com>, RDF Core <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
On 2002-02-04 18:23, "ext Jeremy Carroll" <jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com> wrote: > >>> 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. Fair enough. Though perhaps we could achieve the same or similar results by mapping non-canonical lexical forms for known datatypes to canonical forms and retain the consistent TDL pairing representation. Still, I think we're digressing (or regressing ;-) without need. Cheers, Patrick -- Patrick Stickler Phone: +358 50 483 9453 Senior Research Scientist Fax: +358 7180 35409 Nokia Research Center Email: patrick.stickler@nokia.com
Received on Monday, 4 February 2002 11:31:10 UTC