RE: RDF datatyping

On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Jeremy Carroll wrote:

> A few comments ...

...

> The machinery I find hard to justify is:

...

>  - Always carrying the lexical values in the graph, and having the lexical
> values in the model theory.

Hear, hear. Lexical forms don't belong in a graph; values do. Getting
from a serialisation to a graph is a parser issue (for some definition
of "parser" that may include schema knowledge).


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Received on Friday, 11 January 2002 05:06:53 UTC