- From: pat hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 17:37:28 -0600
- To: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hpl.hp.com>
- Cc: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
>Pat: >> undatatyped literals were indeed un-datatyped > >fine. I'll roll back, You are such a REASONABLE bloke, Jeremy :-) > >> rdfs:XMLLiteral is a masterpiece > >and Pat skilfully chooses an option that wasn't really meant to be on the >table - I am afraid that will be the most work for me, but it shouldn't be >too bad - but your flattery compensates for the additional work! > >Thinking about it, it probably will read OK, possibly better, than either of >the alternatives I had given. > >I'll be down to one built-in datatype, which is clearly then a special case. >It (alone) needs a lang tag in its interpretation, so that too is a special >and unique case that then is non-genralizable (which will please brian). > >Having two sorts of literal typed and untyped is manageable (more manageable >than three). And getting the XML stuff out of the abstract syntax into the >datatyping will hopefully please Tim and Massimo. And, by the way, it also fits very nicely into the Lbase proposal, which also includes XML structures as a special case (because there was no other way to get them into it.) Pat -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32501 (850)291 0667 cell phayes@ai.uwf.edu http://www.coginst.uwf.edu/~phayes
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