- From: Patrick Stickler <patrick.stickler@nokia.com>
- Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 10:36:35 +0200
- To: "ext Frank Manola" <fmanola@mitre.org>, "Roland Schwaenzl" <roland@mathematik.uni-osnabrueck.de>
- Cc: <www-rdf-comments@w3.org>
[Patrick Stickler, Nokia/Finland, (+358 40) 801 9690, patrick.stickler@nokia.com] > ...You should also note that the > "understanding"" of a datatype we talk about in RDF is far less than you > would expect for the "understanding" required for a datatype in a > programming language (where the set of operations associated with the > datatype must also be understood). Just a short comment. There has been some discussion in the WG about possibly defining explicit levels of "understanding" or "support" for datatyping, to aid developers and users in determining whether a given application provides sufficient support for particular content and anticipated operations. One level, or aspect of a level, of support would be knowledge of the full set of operations defined for the values of a given datatype or intersection of datatypes. C.f. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-rdfcore-wg/2002Dec/0009.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-rdfcore-wg/2002Dec/0029.html At the moment, though, Frank is quite right in that the degree of understanding presumed for datatyping entailments, as captured in the current drafts and test cases, is limited to equality, and not necessarily equality across datatypes in all cases. Cheers, Patrick
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