- From: Martyn Horner <martyn.horner@profium.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 10:24:53 +0100
- To: Patrick Stickler <patrick.stickler@nokia.com>
- CC: RDF Core <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
Patrick Stickler wrote: > > On 2002-01-25 16:08, "ext Martyn Horner" <martyn.horner@profium.com> wrote: > > > I keep hearing `xml:lang'... > > > > Your two RDF statments (which could be qualified with an XML:lang > > attribute) could be merged, in some sense, giving something like the > > structure below with QValues. We have an application (in the field!) > > which uses this type of indirection exactly for this purpose. It is > > certainly a small extra effort for queries to handle it but it's > > logical, covered by the schema and does not mess with the level of > > quotation or assertion: it's just a pattern to match. > > Insofar as qualified values are concerned, the anonymous node > idiom seems reasonable. When we get to authority, source, etc. > which relate to the entire statement, though, it seems far > less correct to attach those qualifications to the object/value > rather than to the statement itself. > > I probably would have better off having used a property > such as ex:authority rather than a language scope in my > examples. > > Patrick > > -- > > Patrick Stickler Phone: +358 50 483 9453 > Senior Research Scientist Fax: +358 7180 35409 > Nokia Research Center Email: patrick.stickler@nokia.com In my experience, it is nearly always better to chose something other than language to demonstrate a point. :-) Language is a thorny one - though I find that, right or wrong, most issues about interpretation (even the current data-typing issue) can be visualized as or made to correspond to a language question. That's just my personal fixation, I guess. -- Martyn Horner <martyn.horner@profium.com> Profium, Les Espaces de Sophia, Immeuble Delta, B.P. 037, F-06901 Sophia-Antipolis, France Tel. +33 (0)4.93.95.31.44 Fax. +33 (0)4.93.95.52.58 Mob. +33 (0)6.21.01.54.56 Internet: http://www.profium.com
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