Re: N-Triples changes for datatype values, (possible) N3 alignment

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


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Received on Thursday, 24 October 2002 09:17:22 UTC