- From: Frank Manola <fmanola@mitre.org>
- Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 09:33:17 -0400
- To: Dave Beckett <dave.beckett@bristol.ac.uk>
- CC: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
Dave-- Some comments: Dave Beckett wrote: snip > > The N-Triples syntax for datatype values is: > > "literal"^^<datatypeURI> > and with a language: > "literal"@en-us^^<datatypeURI> Thanks for being so prompt on this. > > Since I just took ages to find this, making URIs for W3C XML Schema > Datatypes is defined here: > > [[For example, to address the int datatype, the URI is: > > * http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#int > ]] > -- http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#built-in-datatypes > > so in RDF/XML, the namespace URI for xsd types would be > http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema# According to section 3.1 of the XML Schema datatypes spec (i.e. XML Schema Part 2), the namespace name http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema is for use "within the XML Schema definition language". The namespace name for use "in specifications other than the XML Schema definition language, such as those that do not want to know anything about aspects of the XML Schema definition language other than the datatypes", is http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-datatypes. (?) > SHORT FORM - for documents only, not normative > > "literal"^^qname > and with a language: > "literal"@en-us^^qname > > examples: > "10"^^xsd:int > > "blue"@en^^ex:mycolourspace > "bleu"@fr^^ex:mycolourspace > Thanks for this too. --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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