- From: pat hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 12:24:07 -0500
- To: Patrick Stickler <patrick.stickler@nokia.com>
- Cc: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
>It does offer a few benefits. Two significant >changes are that it would >require equality of values, even plain literals, to >be defined by rule, rather than node equality >in the graph syntax. ? No, I don't think so. That is, each node will denote a single value. Of course two different nodes could denote the same value, but then that is already the case and has always been. Even in our present design, there is nothing to stop a bnode denoting the same thing as a literal. >It would also make literal values untidy The bnodes (or URIs ) are just as tidy as the rest of the graph. What it does do is mean that there might not be a 1:1 mapping from the bnodes denoting the values to the (plain) literals indicating them: but we know that is inevitable if we have things like decimal and octal. As for "chat"@en versus "chat"@fr, seems to me to be an advantage to be able to not say what the lang is if you happen to not know, but to have a standard way to say it if you do know, and to be able to add the fact when you find out. >and permit >long range typing via rdfs:range. Permit, yes. But lets not go there. Pat [snip] -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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