Re: Syntax and Primer: URI for XML Schema

>>>m batsis said:
> 
> On Thursday 12 December 2002 22:55, Frank Manola wrote:
> > Art.Barstow@nokia.com wrote:
> 
> > Because http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#
> >   is the base URI that Section 3 of the XML Schema datatypes spec
> > (http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/) says to use to address them.
> 
> My understanding of section 3.1 "Namespace considerations]" [1] is that 
> applications other than XSD that wish to point to that spec's datatypes 
> (without further understanding of XSD) should use the URI suggested by Art 
> Barstow.

As I already noted
  http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-comments/2002OctDec/0282.html
section 3.1 says
 "each .built-in. datatype is also defined in the namespace
  whose URI is http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-datatypes"

So to identify an XSD datatype you have a namespace URI plus the
datatype name "in the namespace" - a pair of items.  RDF uses
URI-references to identify resources.  Section 3 clearly defines the
URI-reference for the atomic datatypes, which is what existing RDF,
DAML+OIL and soon OWL are using.

Dave

Received on Thursday, 12 December 2002 18:28:08 UTC