Re: Summary of strings, markup, and language tagging in RDF (resend)

Martin Duerst wrote:

> 
> Hello Patrick,
> 
> At 13:39 03/07/03 +0300, Patrick Stickler wrote:
> 
snip 
> 
>> Our specs are very clear about the non-relevance of xml:lang scope
>> on XML literals insofar as the semantics of *RDF* (not *XML*) are
>> concerned. XML semantics only is relevant to an RDF parser.
>> End of story. *RDF* users (as opposed to *XML*
>> users) will be aware of this (if they've read even the primer) and should
>> act accordingly.
> 
> 
> Well, and assuming the primer actually gets around to talk about
> parseType="Literal" :-(.
> 


The volume of mail on this subject (both this time around and prior 
times around) strikes me as an excellent reason why the Primer doesn't 
talk about parseType="Literal".  On the other hand, it probably should, 
so if you folks would like to come up with a paragraph or so that 
everyone would agree with, I'd be happy to include it.

--Frank

 


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