RE: Non-Text Literals

Hi Ashley,

While datatyping is still a work in progress, it is anticipated
that you could express a base64 encoded literal in a form similar to
the following:

   <photograph rdf:type="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#base64Binary">R0lGODlhEAAQAJ...</photograph>

Hopefully soon there will be a published WD from the RDF Core WG
which will discuss this kind of datatyped literal in detail.

Regards,

Patrick

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext Ashley Yakeley [mailto:ashley@semantic.org]
> Sent: 31 August, 2002 08:22
> To: RDF Interest Group
> Subject: Non-Text Literals
> 
> 
> 
> Hi, I just subscribed. Is there a way to represent data other 
> than text 
> in RDF? For instance, given this,
> 
>   <rdf:RDF
>     xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
>     xmlns="http://semantic.org/whatever#"
>   <Person>
>     <name>Ashley Yakeley</name>
>     <email>ashley@semantic.org</email>
>   </Person>
>   </rdf:RDF>
> 
> how would I insert a "photograph" property? I thought maybe
> 
>   <photograph><something:Literal type="image/jpeg" 
> encoding="base64"><![CDATA[
>      AAAAAAAfhjeiwlnvlimeibeio etc.
>   ]]></something:Literal></photograph>
> 
> or maybe this:
> 
>   
> <photograph><rdf:Resource>data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAQAJ
> EAAP///wAAACe
> MU//m5iH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAAQABAAAAIrhI+py+1/gpxMDoHFkCmMm2FfEH2gJ
> I6G92Gopq5tCJ
> OIFW62MlHQDwwCCwA7</rdf:Resource></photograph>
> 
> What's the best way to do this?
> 
> -- 
> Ashley Yakeley, Seattle WA
> 
>

Received on Saturday, 31 August 2002 04:41:53 UTC