RE: Short intro to Datatyping in RDF/XML

• From: <Art.Barstow@nokia.com>
• Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 08:54:03 -0500
• To: <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <5C76D29CD0FA3143896D08BB1743296AC14ED0@bsebe001.americas.nokia.com>

A correction below ...

> From: Patrick Stickler [mailto:patrick.stickler@nokia.com]
> Subject: Re: Short intro to Datatyping in RDF/XML
> 
> > "Note that since rdfs:Datatype is a subclass of rdfs:Literal,"
> 
> Actually, every instance of rdfs:Datatype is a subclass of 
> rdfs:Literal. Thus, 
> 
> IF
>    ddd rdf:type rdfs:Datatype .
> THEN
>    ddd rdfs:subClassOf rdfs:Literal .
> 
> The class rdfs:Datatype is not itself a subclass of rdfs:Literal
> as e.g. the datatype xsd:integer is not itself a literal, rather
> its members (values) are literals.
 

Received on Friday, 27 December 2002 08:55:07 UTC