- From: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 23:47:25 +0100
- To: Pat Hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Cc: Jeen Broekstra <jeen.broekstra@aidministrator.nl>, www-rdf-comments@w3.org
At 23:13 01/04/2002 -0600, Pat Hayes wrote: [...] >However, the WG has now, I believe (Brian, correct me if this is out of >date) decided that literals in RDF shall always denote character strings >(ie the literal label itself, shorn of various XML taffeta), A literal has three components (not to be confused with a triple) a bit indicating whether it is of parseType="Literal" or not a string indicating the language of the literal the literal string itself [...] >>>This leads me to think that the range of a property also defaults >>>to rdfs:Resource, and that any use of that property with a >>>literal value is within that range. Is this correct? >> >>You may care to assume that. I couldn't possibly comment. >> >>Sorry, English joke. I won't say whether you are correct or not. I will >>say that RDF(S) makes no such statement. > >Well, but maybe it will soon, right? Thats clearly where we are headed, but I'm not sure if we will get there in this round of specs. Brian
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