Re: a few questions about literals

On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Jos De_Roo wrote:

> > On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 17:05, Pat Hayes wrote:
>
> > > Then we can just say that for literals E, I(E) = E, and not
> > > talk about things like LV and XL at all. Does anyone have any
> > > philosophical objections to this? It would allow quite a few of the
> > > lemmas to be stated with fewer qualifications, and the proofs to be
> > > simplified.
>
> no objection, just praise

Absolute agreement. I sent something like this to the list ages ago: see

	http://ioctl.org/rdf/literals

which demonstrates how you can do tidy literals and support XSD
datatypes - (and you'd probably implement it using something akin to
jena's pair mechanism).


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