Re: ACTION 2003-03-14#6: comments on semantics doc

Yes, I think that if we can reasonably simplify this area we should leap at 
the opportunity to do so.

#g
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At 08:41 15/04/2003 +0300, Jeremy Carroll wrote:


>XMLLiterals and langauge tags
>=========================
>
>gk
> >>a typed literal with a language tag
> >>is
> >>syntactically OK,
>
>path
> >yes
>
> >>but ill-formed,
>
> >no, it just has some redundant information in it
>
>Pat is right, he is also right to say
>
> > FWIW, seems to me that by trying to keep the syntax a wee bit simpler
> > we have made everything else a lot more complicated. I would like to
> > see lang tags purged from typed  literals altogether, they seem to
> > play no useful role, even in XML (since you can always include them
> > in the actual XML document-character string, right?).
>
>I personally think we have 'new information' [1] in that the reagle decision
>allows a simplish resolution of pfps-08 to align XMLLiteral with the other
>datatypes, which then means that the lang tag would never be used on type
>literals and could be purged. I guess that procedurally that would be
>reopening reagle-01, reagle-02, pfps-08 - and it might be better to get on
>with the other issues first. (Even superficially related ones, such as
>danc-0? goofy literals, are orthogonal).
>
>Jeremy
>
>[1] "So finish the job!  :-)"
>http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-rdfcore-wg/2003Apr/0056.html

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