Re: RDF Core WG work on literals

At 12:56 PM 9/28/01 -0400, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote:
>How does this match up against the pronouncement
>
>         Two RDF strings are deemed to be the same if their ISO/IEC 10646
>         representations match.

Ah, that would appear to be a contradiction.

#g
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[...]
> > >As an alternative proposal why not simply say that RDF literals are XML
> > >strings, and use the semantics for the XML Schema string datatype?
> >
> > That would ignore the fact that RDF M&S considers language to be part of a
> > literal.
> >
> > http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-rdf-syntax/, section 6:
> > [[[
> > The xml:lang attribute may be used as defined by [XML] to
> > associate a language with the property value. There is no specific data
> > model representation for xml:lang (i.e., it adds no triples to
> > the data model); the language of a literal is considered by RDF to
> > be a part of the literal.
> > ]]]


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Graham Klyne
(GK@ACM.ORG)

Received on Friday, 28 September 2001 13:16:58 UTC