Re: Semantics review: XMLLiteral

>This is a review of:
>
>http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes/RDF_Semant_Edit_append.html
>
>(no apparant unique-id)
>
>My review is in a number of parts.
>This part is restricted to XMLLiteral.
>
>I start with a question: your treatment of the relationship between URIs and
>datatypes is somewhat more thorough than that inc concepts.
>
>Are the following two phrases from concepts OK or should they be changed:
>
>a)
>
>"A datatype is identified by a URI."

Yes, OK

>
>b)
>concerning XMLLiteral
>
>"The datatype URI
>is http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#XMLLiteral."

I think this is OK. The only people to whom it might matter are 
extremely picky logic types who worry about equality, and they have 
the exact statement in Semantics to go on.

>possible change to a) is e.g.
>"A datatype may be identified by one or more URI references"
>
>possible change to b) is e.g.
>
>"A datatype URI reference
>is http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#XMLLiteral."
>or
>"The preferred URI reference
>is ..."
>
>====
>
>The value space of XMLLiteral is not XML documents but exclusive Canonical XML
>(see latest concepts editors draft) ... you've done pretty well given the
>lack of clarity I have given you.

:-)

All following changes now made to the latest editors draft at

   http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes/RDF_Semant_Edit_Weak.html

.  Sorry it took so long to get around to these.

Pat
----------

>Suggest global substitute
>   s/XML document/XML data/
>(problem with actual making this change is if we are going to go back and
>accept I18N desire to keep the lang-tag - the easiest way to do that now
>would be in RDF/XML Syntax, which would then make it go back from XML data to
>XML document - I hope we can close this on Friday).
>
>Also the reference
>
>[XML-C14N]
>Canonical XML, Boyer, J. W3C Recommendation, March 2001.
>
>should be replaced by
>
>
>[XML-XC14N]
>Exclusive XML Canonicalization Version 1.0, J. Boyer, D.E. Eastlake 3rd, J.
>Reagle, Authors/Editors. W3C Recommendation. World Wide Web Consortium, 18
>July 2002. This version of Exclusive XML Canonicalization is
>http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/REC-xml-exc-c14n-20020718. The latest version of
>Canonical XML is at http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-exc-c14n.
>
>====
>
>I will detail this global substitution, and other points in order in the file,
>searching for XML, also refering to my paper copy with scribbles:
>
>a) in change log last line, suggest s/XML documents/XML data/
>b) 0.2 first para
>s/XML document corresponding to/XML data corresponding to/
>and change link from #section-XMLLiteral to
>#XMLLiteral-mapping
>(if you agree, I will add at that definition -
>   "(This is referred to as the *XML data corresponding to* the string)."
>c) end of 1.2 @@ text
>suggest
>[[which is considered to denote exclusive canonical XML
>[XML-XC14N] (hereafter "XML data")
>corresponding to the string in the typed literal;]]
>
>d) section 3. third para s/XML document/XML data/ (three times)
>
>Note: following the links to exclusive canonical XML makes it clear that
>exclusive canonical XML is octet sequences, not sequences of character codes,
>so we could decide to make a call concerning this agnosticism and go for them
>being different. I prefer not to.
>
>e) section 3 in green box slightly lower down s/XML document/XML data/
>
>f) suggest
>"mis-typed XML literals" should be "ill-typed" (section 3 para after purple
>box)
>
>g) section 5 para above purple box
>
>  "contain <rdf:XMLliteral, x> where x is the built-in XML datatype"
>
>suggest "built-in XML Literal datatype"
>
>h) Appendix C - note I have not read this yet
>
>s/XML document/XML data/ twice
>
>i) section 5 first para
>"It also includes a single built-in datatype XMLLiteral."
>suggest
>"rdf:XMLLiteral"
>
>Jeremy

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