- From: pat hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 00:04:03 -0500
- To: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
- Cc: "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>, bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com, www-rdf-comments@w3.org, w3c-i18n-ig@w3.org, msm@w3.org
Hi Martin Just to keep you informed, the latest version of the RDF semantics doc now avoids all ambiguity and shilly-shallying on these issues. It says unequivocally that: 1. XML literals denote things which are in 1:1 correspondence with canonical XML content but are not, themselves, identical to character strings. (It defers to the Concepts document for exactly what those things really are, but just this is enough to make the semantics work properly. ) 2. XSD xsd:strings denote the same things as RDF plain literals (without language tags). The reverse isnt quite exactly true because RDF syntax doesn't forbid the XML-excluded Unicode control blocks, but if you can write it in XML at all, then its the same string as a plain literal and as a xsd:string typed literal. Pat -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32501 (850)291 0667 cell phayes@ihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
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