Re: Proposed N-Triples changes for datatypes & (untidy) literals

[Patrick Stickler, Nokia/Finland, (+358 50) 483 9453, patrick.stickler@nokia.com]


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ext Jos De_Roo" <jos.deroo.jd@belgium.agfa.com>
To: "Patrick Stickler" <patrick.stickler@nokia.com>
Cc: "Dave Beckett" <dave.beckett@bristol.ac.uk>; "ext Jeremy Carroll" <jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com>; "RDF Core" <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
Sent: 23 September, 2002 16:47
Subject: Re: Proposed N-Triples changes for datatypes & (untidy) literals


> 
> [...]
> 
> > I'm still not convinced, though, that the above could not be
> > made to entail itself in the MT, since the systemID of the
> > implicitly typed literal (the _:x in _:x"foo") acts
> > like a bnode nodeID of a datatype, and can be treated in
> > like manner.
> 
> I think so
> indeed
>   _:a eg:name _:x"Patrick Stickler" .
> entails
>   _:b eg:name _:y"Patrick Stickler" .

Right


> PS however (and again)
>   _:a eg:name "Patrick Stickler" .
> does *not* entail
>   _:b eg:name _:y"Patrick Stickler" .

Agreed

And again, we wouldn't have to worry about this because
if all implicitly typed literals are prefixed with
unique systemIDs, we would never get

  _:a eg:name "Patrick Stickler" .

in the graph, so no worries.

Cheers,

Patrick

Received on Monday, 23 September 2002 13:04:31 UTC