- From: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 16:10:28 +0000
- To: Graham Klyne <GK@NineByNine.org>, RDF core WG <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
At 18:41 15/01/2003 +0000, Graham Klyne wrote: >I'm trying to answer a question that's come up in the CC/PP working group. > >Can a plain literal be regarded as an instance of xsd:string? > >I think it's fairly clear that a plain literal with a language tag is not >an xsd:string, Yes My recollection is that the WG discussed this at a telecon and agreed to arrange things to that it would be possible that a plain literal without a lang tag could denote a member of the value space of xsd:string, i.e. we agreed that a plain literal with a lang tag did not denote a pair with a null lang tag, but just denoted a string. If this needs clarifying, I suggest we do so in last call, and as Patrick says, as part of clarifying the class hierarchy of xsd datatypes. Brian
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