RE: test case A revisited

On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Jeremy Carroll wrote:

>
> > Consider
> >
> >    _:b1 rdf:type rdf:Seq .
> >    _:b1 rdf:_1   "10" .
> >    _:b2 rdf:type rdf:Seq .
> >    _:b2 rdf:_1   "10" .
> >
> > This would require that the first member of each sequence is the same.
> >
>
> My take is that global datatyping and containers of literals simply do not
> interoperate.
> Containers with literal values either are untyped or locally typed.
>
> I don't believe that any of the proposed global datatyping solutions (ever) work
> with containers.
>
> Hence I think:
>
> + test case A is a choice (the group seems minded to say that the entailment
> holds - I disagree but not strongly).
>
> + containers cannot contain globally typed literals (i.e. the literals are
> either self-denoting or untyped)
>
> + if test case A is true then rdf:object takes untyped literals as its object
> (Brian also mentioned the rdf:object problem in the telecon).

This is presumably an arguable benefit of having container machinery
darkened? (And reification vocabulary, possibly) : ie, that bogus type
inferences aren't drawn by accident.

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