- From: Dave Beckett <dave.beckett@bristol.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 10:08:03 +0100
- To: Patrick Stickler <patrick.stickler@nokia.com>
- Cc: "ext Graham Klyne" <GK@ninebynine.org>, www-rdf-comments@w3.org, Arjohn Kampman <arjohn.kampman@aduna.biz>, pat hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 16:28:20 +0300, Patrick Stickler <patrick.stickler@nokia.com> wrote: > > On Apr 5, 2005, at 12:35, ext Graham Klyne wrote: > > > > > While I agree with David and Arjohn that ""^^<datatype> SHOULD be > > expressible, > > I'd like Pat Hayes' in put on that, before we decide this, > as I recall there being some issues with null lexical forms > with regards to the model theory. > > It's probably OK, but best to be sure we don't break anything... The RDF/XML syntax REC has by design and necessity, no dependency on the RDF Semantics REC, it depends only on RDF Concepts and Abstract Syntax REC which defines what an RDF Triple is: http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-concepts/#section-triples and an RDF literal (Typed Literal) http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-concepts/#dfn-literal What interpretations of RDF triples the RDF Semantics doc makes are not relevant here (to RDF/XML parsers, serializers) RDF Concepts does allow 0-length lexical form Typed Literals, so they are expressible and should be allowed to be encoded in RDF/XML - there are no XML/technical reasons why not. An oversight in the grammar. Dave
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