- From: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 07:23:32 +0000
- To: Pat Hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>, Frank Manola <fmanola@mitre.org>
- Cc: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
At 11:22 27/02/2002 -0600, Pat Hayes wrote: [...] >Let me suggest a possible way out of this maze. Its the kind of thing that >a mathematician would say, so maybe it won't be acceptable, but here goes. What maze? The WG decided at the f2f that literals are in fact a triple: <parsetype, lang-code, unicode-string> The parseType is a single bit which indicates if the string came from a parseType="Literal" in the xml/syntax. The lang-code is a short string from some iso standard that defines the language. The string is the string. Does this give the model theory problems Pat. [...] >PS. One case which this might not handle well would be where the one >string means different things in different languages. Are there any cases >like that? Lots e.g. "chat" Brian
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