Re: concepts updated

I have now republished with changes from Graham and Pat.

I think the current version is ready for WG review, although if Graham gets 
me any further changes before the telecon tomorrow I will include them.

I list the latest changes below (the very last one is possibly the most 
interesting, concerning synonyms for XMLLiteral).

Patrick:
 >>> "The datatype abstraction used in RDF is compatible with
 >>>  XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes..."

Pat on datatypes:
 > That reads OK to me also as a first sentence, although you might want to
 > qualify it pretty quickly since we explicitly rule out some of the XMLS
 > datatypes as being incompatible.

I now have " ... is compatible with the abstraction used in XML Schema ..."

I also explicitly say at end

"[RDF-SEMANTICS] contains a more detailed discussion of specific XML Schema 
built-in datatypes."

If Pat could provide an anchor on the table of XSD datatypes then I would 
link directly to that.

gk:
 > I agree.  But I think the following:
 >
 > [[
 > A URI reference or literal used as a node identifies what that node
 > represents. A URI reference used as a predicate identifies the
 > relationship between the nodes it connects. A predicate URI reference
 > may also be a node in the graph.
 > ]]


 > should be revised to say something like
 > "... identifies the relationship between the things represented by the 
nodes it connects"

I did this and also changed from "the relationship" to "a relationship"


jeremy concerning semantics:
 > Are the following two phrases from concepts OK or should they be changed:
 >
 > a)
 >
 > "A datatype is identified by a URI."
 >
 > b)
 > concerning XMLLiteral
 >
 > "The datatype URI
 > is http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#XMLLiteral."
 >
 > possible change to a) is e.g.
 > "A datatype may be identified by one or more URI references"

The new text is:
"A datatype is identified by one or more URI references"

which excludes a free floating datatype with no URI but makes no unique 
names assumption. I beleive this agrees with semantics.

 >
 > 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 new text reads:
"A URI reference for identifying this datatype
is ..."

Brian reminds me:
 > 2002-11-22#5      jjc      check that RDF Concepts does not allow a
 > synonym for rdf:XMLLiteral


The text above is intended to allow a synonym, without actually saying so 
explicitly. If the WG believes this detail does need explicit text I have a 
weak preference for it to go in semantics.

Jeremy

Received on Thursday, 19 June 2003 08:11:30 UTC