Re: xml:lang [was Re: Outstanding Issues ]

Patrick Stickler wrote:
> 
> On 2002-02-12 20:28, "ext Frank Manola" <fmanola@mitre.org> wrote:
> 
> > Patrick says the language is non-existent in the
> > RDF graph.
> 
> Insofar as most examples, representations, DT discussions, etc. I.e. that
> based on most materials and discussions, it seems to be a rather common
> view that literals are simple strings. I've yet to see a single example
> where the literal was represented as a string-language pairing.
> 
> Clearly, some implementations do treat literals as pairings.
> 
> It was stated that ARP does this, but if I enter
> 
>   <dc:title xml:lang="en">World Wide Web Consortium</dc:title>
> 
> in the W3C RDF validator, I don't see 'en' reflected in either the
> triples or the graph. Is it then optional functionality not used
> by the validator? Or is that functionality in a later version of ARP
> than what is used by the validator?

Enter it (with suitable preamble) into Profium's online parser at
http://www.profium.com/gb/products/rdfdemo.shtml and you'll see we take
the `qualified literal' approach...literal('World Wide Web
Consortium','en'). It's just another opinion, I guess.


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Received on Thursday, 14 February 2002 10:39:46 UTC