Re: literals, language, xml

At 04:50 PM 6/25/02 +0100, Jan Grant wrote:
>Would it not be simpler to say that
>
>         <property xml:lang="fr">chat</property>
>
>was a syntactic shorthand for something like
>
>         <property rdf:parsetype="Literal">
>                 <xml:something xml:lang="fr">char</xml:something>
>         </property>
>
>? - in other words, punt the language tag into the XML realm, keep
>literals as simple strings (or the string representation of XML content)
>and make Pat happier?
>
>This has been done to death, but I've had a scan back and I don't recall
>this coming up before - further apologies if it has already been raised.

I don't remember seeing anything like that before, either.

The biggest problem I see here is deciding what the <xml:something> should 
be.  I portend complications here, but can't see what they are.

#g


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Graham Klyne
<GK@NineByNine.org>

Received on Tuesday, 25 June 2002 16:19:48 UTC