- From: Frank Manola <fmanola@mitre.org>
- Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 08:10:14 -0400
- To: Patrick Stickler <patrick.stickler@nokia.com>
- CC: ext Jos De_Roo <jos.deroo.jd@belgium.agfa.com>, w3c-rdfcore-wg <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
Patrick Stickler wrote: > snip > > Fair enough, but as RDF is supposed to support arbitrary > datatypes I would expect that machinery proposed for processing > RDF would by default respect that fact, and as such, my comments > are valid. > > If folks wish to have proprietary machinery that only works with > XML Schema datatypes, that's fine, but let's be very clear then when > proposals are constrained in such a fashion, otherwise we spend > too much time re-re-re-clarifying issues such as the above. > > This was why I requested some clarification in the specs when > 'datatype' is used, since it is clear that some folks mean > rdfs:Datatype and others mean XML Schema datatype and depending > on which is meant, it can greatly affect the significance of > what folks are saying. > More precisely, when "datatype" is used, some folks mean something that *RDFS* will interpret as an rdfs:Datatype (RDF doesn't know about rdfs:Datatype, any more than it knows about rdfs:Class when you use rdf:type). Right? --Frank -- 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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