- From: Frank Manola <fmanola@mitre.org>
- Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 08:26:25 -0500
- To: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- CC: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com>, w3c-i18n-ig@w3.org, w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
Brian-- This note doesn't strike me as the kind of thing that ought to go *only* in the Primer, although it might well go there in addition to someplace else. It sounds like an important qualification for RDF developers, and I don't think it should be *necessary* for people to read the Primer to get this type of information. --Frank Brian McBride wrote: > 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 "*". >> >> ]]] > > -- Frank Manola The MITRE Corporation 202 Burlington Road, MS A345 Bedford, MA 01730-1420 mailto:fmanola@mitre.org voice: 781-271-8147 FAX: 781-271-875
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