- From: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 07:58:27 +0100
- To: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- CC: pat hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>, rdf core <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
Brian McBride wrote: > On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 14:59, pat hayes wrote: > >>>I noticed that closure rule rdf2 in >>> >>> http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/RDFCore/TR/WD-rdf-mt-20030117/#rdf_entail >>> >>>will generate an infinite number of triples from any triple with an xml >>>literal as its object. >>> >>Is that really the case? I still have not got a clear picture of what >>the XMLliteral value is supposed to be or how it relates to the >>lexical form, but my understanding was that the lex2value mapping was >>a pretty simple normalization process, so that the set of lexical >>forms which map to the same 'value' would be reasonably small. >> > > Jeremy is the expert. I was thinking there may be places where I can > add unbounded amounts of whitespace, e.g. spaces between attribute > values. > > Brian > > In the lexical space and the value space XMLLiterals are simply (isomorhpic to?) strings. i.e. identity and equality are the same. However, in RDF/XML documents Brian is correct, you can have arbitrarty whitespace in certain places - but it gets squashed before you get to the lexical space. Jeremy
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