- From: pat hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 17:56:59 -0500
- To: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
- Cc: <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>, w3c-i18n-ig@w3.org
The end of a paragraph got lost in an edit in my last message, sorry. Pat ------- I note that XSD datatyping is curiously ambivalent about language tagging of strings, which are arguably merely a form of text (a case which has been made very strongly by some members of Webont and the RDF WG, who feel that plain literals and literals typed with xsd:string should be indistinguishable.) I think we - that is the entire world, not just the RDF WG - need to get this distinction between character strings considered as objects, and text considered as a description,worked out more carefully. It gets particularly tangled when the text contains markup, of course, and traditional mechanisms like quoting probably need to be extended in new ways. ------- -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32501 (850)291 0667 cell phayes@ihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
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