- From: Jos De_Roo <jos.deroo@agfa.com>
- Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:19:17 +0200
- To: "pat hayes <phayes" <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Cc: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>, w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org, w3c-rdfcore-wg-request@w3.org
[...] > There are technical reasons (to do with identity substitution on > datatype names) why it is unworkable to have a 'special' datatype > which violates the structural assumptions of the datatyping model, > and it is not feasible or desireable to include lang tags in the > datatyping model. So *if* we treat XML literals as being typed by an > XML datatype, it is infeasible to include lang tags as part of the > literal structure. They could be included as part of the XML literal > string itself, by requiring all such literals to have a special > rdf-wrapper onto which the lang tag can be attached by normal XML > conventions; but then of course the actual XML literal string no > longer looks like the XML fragment included in the RDF/XML document. > But on the other hand, from view X, I guess that would just be an > implementation detail. I agree with that summary. -- Jos De Roo, AGFA http://www.agfa.com/w3c/jdroo/
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