- From: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 10:07:39 -1000
- To: "Karsten-A. Otto" <ottoka@cs.tu-berlin.de>, www-rdf-comments@w3.org
At 15:04 07/05/2002 +0200, Karsten-A. Otto wrote: >Hello, > >I noticed that the productions for literals in the N-Triples specification >(RDF Test Cases, http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-testcases/) has been changed to >allow xmlString and langstring. This should have a capital S by the way. > >I applaud the addition of a language tag in the langString production, >which in my opinion greatly increases the expressiveness of N-Triples. > >However, I do not quite understand what xmlString is supposed to be for. >Is this for parseType=Literal cases? Please add some explanations for >these new literal variants. Otto, The doc editors will likely respond in full shortly, but your guess is right that xmlString is a boolean to indicate whether the literal had an rdf:parseType="Literal" attribute. Two literals that differ only in the valueof their xml:String component are considered to be different. Brian
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