Re: details of rdf:datatype?

At 09:55 AM 10/15/02 +0300, Patrick Stickler wrote:
> > My take is that only the first case is RDF-entailed:  if the datatype and
> > text are the same for two literals then they must denote the same value.
>
>But they are not the same datatype. They are different URIs, and RDF
>cannot know that there is any intersection of the value spaces of
>xsd:integer and xsd:decimal. Thus the first case is not RDF-entailed.

Oops, I missed that.  Yes, if the datatype URIs are different then IMHO RDF 
(alone) cannot infer an equivalence.

#g


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Graham Klyne
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Received on Tuesday, 15 October 2002 09:21:59 UTC