Re: rdfms-xmllang - text for a note

I was wondering where this might be put.  The primer?

Brian


At 13:33 01/03/2002 +0000, Jeremy Carroll wrote:
> >
> > This treats a missing tag as synonymous with the RFC 3066 language range
> > "*", which matches any tag.
> >
>
>At the plenary, in discussion with Misha and Martin, it became clear that
>there are two equalities needed.
>
>The RDF specs need a mathematically rigorous and transitive equality. User
>applications probably want an equality following John's proposal.
>
>The RDF specs need to clarify that application developers are not misled
>that the transitive equality is normative for all uses.
>
>The RDF Core has agreed that the definition of equality is as I earlier
>indicated, with exact (case insensitive) matching of lang-tags.
>
>Misha suggested that we should use a note to clarify this.
>
>Thus I propose that text such as the following is included near the
>definition of literal equality:
>
>[[[
>
>NOTE: This definition of equality is appropriate when constructing an RDF
>graph, when checking an RDF test case, and when interpreting an RDF graph
>according to the RDF model theory. In other contexts it is usually more
>appropriate to use the methods described in RFC 3066 treating a missing
>language tag as "*".
>
>]]]

Received on Thursday, 14 March 2002 03:07:11 UTC