Re: RDFCore WG: Datatyping documents

> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2002Jan/att-0131/01-RDF_Data
> > typing.htm
> 
> I am concerned that this document  element names into the XML Schema
> namespace. It seems to me that concepts that RDFCore introduces should be
> labelled by an RDF namespace. It seems to me that the XML Schema namespace
> should be reserved for XML elements and URIs introduced by this WG.

I agree with this, but I'd go farther.  I think that even though RDFCore is 
not chartered to come up with a new data typing scheme, that they should 
consider defining XSD data types using URIs under the control of RDFCore, and 
providing a simple and normartive mapping between these and the XSD data types.

I think that given the current chaos of namespaces and architectures in the 
W3C, that this is the only safe approach for consistency *within* the RDF 
space.


> On the other hand this draft seems to do a much better job of defining
> datatypes in an independent fashion to XML Schema, yet using the same
> concepts, so I suspect that simply changing how the concepts are named will
> be an effective solution. Whether this can still be called "XML Schema
> datatypes" will remain to be seen, but nonetheless, the solution will be
> compatible with XML Schema datatypes:
> 
> i..e. just don't call it "xsd:integer" rather "rdfdt:integer"

I think this is similar to what I'm trying to say above.


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