- From: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: 11 Jul 2003 01:16:04 +0100
- To: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
- Cc: rdf core <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>, w3c-i18n-ig@w3.org
Hi Martin, On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 23:55, Martin Duerst wrote: > I have not yet gotten a satisfactory picture of why actually RDF > Core dropped language information from XML Literals post last call. > I would really like to better understand why this happened. > > I asked Brian today about where to find the relevant material, > and he pointed me to > http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/RDFCore/20030123-issues/#semantics, > in particular to the issues with 'XML Literal' in their title. > I have carefully scanned these, and all the other last call > issues on this document, extracted all I thought *might* > be potentially relevant below, and commented on them. Yes, sorry if you didn't find everything from there. I couldn't find the link I was really looking for at the time. A good place to start is the minutes of the meeting where the decision was taken: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-rdfcore-wg/2003May/0138.html You want agenda item 12. > > The overall conclusion is that none of them requests to remove > language information from XML literals, neither directly, or, > as far as I could infer, indirectly. So I'm still at a loss > why this was done. Hm, yes, the email trail isn't that helpful. As I recal, a major motivation was difficulty with the semantics, and strong feedback from Peter. Pat? I still can't find the email I'm looking for. Ah, found it: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-rdfcore-wg/2003Jul/0076.html > > I also haven't found any direct evidence for what Brian wrote at: > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-i18n-ig/2003Jul/0054.html http://www.w3.org/2002/07/29-rdfcadm-tbl.html Brian
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