Re: More semantic comments (XML Schema value spaces)

As Pat and I have gone through, there are two separate issues here:

1) Value spaces -- they're sets alright, as you would hope and expect,
and their members are simple things _in the world_ such as numbers,
strings, booleans, URIs.

2) The definition of certain aspects of schema-validity which appear
to appeal to values should actually be understood as appealing to
pairs of values and the type they are a member of.  Thus the REC says
that (double)3 does not compare equal to (float)3, and
(string)my:aname does not compare equal to (anyURI)my:aname.

(2) is _only_ relevant to W3C XML Schema internal processes, and
shouldn't get in the way of RDF using the types and their value
spaces, in my opinion.

ht
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