So now we have tidy literals...

Now that we have tidy literals, do we actually agree what (tidy) kind of 
thing they actually denote, so we can say something sensible in the 
concepts document?

I.e., in:

   Jenny age "10" .

is there anything to say about what the "10" actually denotes?

 From past discussion, I'm expecting that the answer will be that a literal 
denotes a composite value consisting of a Uniocode string, a language code 
and an XML flag, or something of that kind.  That would tally with the 
current abstract syntax description [1].

On that basis, my proposed additional text for section 2.4.3 of the 
concepts document would be:
[[
An untyped literal is either a string literal or an XML literal, either of 
which consists of a sequence of Unicode characters and a language 
code.  See section 3.2 for details.
]]

#g
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[1] 
http://www.ninebynine.org/wip/RDF-concepts/2002-10-10/rdf-concepts.html#section-Graph-Literal


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Graham Klyne
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Received on Friday, 11 October 2002 13:30:29 UTC