- From: pat hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 12:17:21 -0600
- To: Patrick Stickler <patrick.stickler@nokia.com>
- Cc: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
>_____________Original message ____________ >Subject: RE: rdfs:StringLiteral >Sender: ext Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hpl.hp.com> >Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 10:01:05 +0300 > > > >thanks Patrick I misspoke. > >Should all datatypes be subclass of rdfs:Literal; > > No. As that would mean that their value spaces > are proper subsets of rdfs:Literal No, it doesn't mean that. Seems to me, at any rate. rdfs:Literal is the class of all literal values, not all literals. If it were all literals then nothing would be in it, since there is no way to name a literal in RDF and use that name in the subject position in a triple. >and e.g. an integer > value is not itself a literal. > > In reality, the rdfs:Literal class is IMO a bug as it reflects > a syntactic quality of an object, not it's semantics. Its badly named, for sure. 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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