- From: Brian McBride <bwm@HPLB.HPL.HP.COM>
- Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 19:36:35 +0000
- To: fmanola@mitre.org, Patrick Stickler <patrick.stickler@nokia.com>
- Cc: w3c-rdfcore-wg <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
At 13:43 04/11/2002 -0500, Frank Manola wrote: [...] >I take your point, and I can certainly move the condition up to the >preceding set of bullets (which are not explicitly designated as >"required", although that could be changed). However, to what extent do >you think RDF can actually impose and test these requirements? In other >words, it seems to me that someone can create a typed literal and cite a >URI for the datatype, with no guarantee that the datatype actually meets >these conditions. How does RDF validate the requirement you are talking >about? We might say that if the datatype *doesn't* satisfy these >conditions, things are going to get screwed up, but that's not the same >statement. It is not a member of the class rdfs:Datatype if it does not meet the required conditions. We can't say that in RDF, but I'm not sure that matters. Brian
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