- From: pat hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 12:12:22 -0600
- To: "Jeremy Carroll" <jjc@hpl.hp.com>
- Cc: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
> >Did you not understand the request? or >>did you disagree with it? Or is it >>a matter of not having time to write >>it that way? > >My negative response to the request was here: > >http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-rdfcore-wg/2002Oct/0388.html > >it echoes what I think you said, and gives a rationale for rejecting your >suggestion. Looks like we need to spend more time on that one. I don't find the reasons give all very convincing. In particular, arguments from formal elegance should only be used as tie-breakers. But the last one, about XML accidents, is a reasonable one. I would suggest that we let the model theory merge the cases back together, by ignoring the lang tag for non-XML literals. It has no meaning outside XML in any case: the *strings* "chat"eng and "chat"fr are the same string. If we want to distinguish them, then we should call them 'words' and have a domain of words in the model theory for them to denote. 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 s.pam@ai.uwf.edu for spam
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