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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext Frank Manola [mailto:fmanola@mitre.org]
> Sent: 04 July, 2003 00:02
> To: Martin Duerst
> Cc: Stickler Patrick (NMP/Tampere); w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org;
> Brian_McBride; jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com; ext pat hayes
> Subject: 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

Well, shame on me at least for not realizing that the primer
didn't address rdf:parseType="Literal". For some reason I
recalled that it did (maybe at some time it did).

Yes, Frank, I think that Martin's input clearly reflects the
need for XML folks to understand the difference between view X
and view G, as Pat puts it, and how the RDF/XML serialization
is an encapsulation of any XML literals and that the
rdf:parseType="Literal" attribute indicates the boundary between
the encapsulation and the encapsulated.

I think that Pat had some very good material in his recent post
that would fit well into the primer. I'll be thinking myself
on how this might be best expressed.

Cheers,

Patrick

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Patrick Stickler
Nokia, Finland
patrick.stickler@nokia.com

Received on Friday, 4 July 2003 03:51:02 UTC