- From: Jos De_Roo <jos.deroo.jd@belgium.agfa.com>
- Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 12:51:24 +0200
- To: pat hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Cc: Patrick Stickler <patrick.stickler@nokia.com>, w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
[...]
> If we combine the semantic
> conditions for bnodes and for datatype literals, then (_:x, "10") is
> basically a variable ranging over possible things that "10" could be
> mapped to by a datatype.
that is it
we should have no problem implementing that
(in Euler
O--verb->uri-or-var
--object->O--verb->string)
[...]
> Finally, one alternative is to do all the above but ALSO allow bare
> literals as legal nodes, and require them to follow Dan's preferences
> and denote themselves. Then *bare* literals provide a way to refer to
> lexical forms, and datatyped literals (including those with bnodes in
> them) allow us to use literals to refer to values. In this case all
> nodes would be tidy also, but a bare literal would never be the same
> as a literal node. In many ways this conforms to everyone's wishes,
> I think: literals always refer to themselves, datatyped literal nodes
> always refer to values, all the usual semantic rules apply uniformly,
> and we can say anything. The only real cost will be to legacy systems
> which use bare literals to refer to values, but they will need to be
> changed, probably, whatever we do. And we can discuss the translation
> strategies in the previous paragraph, with their pros and cons, for
> use by conversion implementers.
I think I prefer that one
> If the WG feels this is worth bothering with, I could wrote this up
> as a draft in a few days.
O, definitely
I'm impressed
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Jos De Roo, AGFA http://www.agfa.com/w3c/jdroo/
Received on Friday, 6 September 2002 06:52:04 UTC