- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 11:21:19 -0400
- To: "Lynn, James (Software Services)" <james.lynn@hp.com>
- Cc: Christopher Schmidt <crschmidt@crschmidt.net>, john.nj.davies@bt.com, Libby.Miller@bristol.ac.uk, Kianoush.Eshaghi@metadat.at, charles@w3.org, www-rdf-interest@w3.org
* Lynn, James (Software Services) <james.lynn@hp.com> [2004-09-29 10:47-0400] > So is it ok to lang tag mbox without affecting mbox_sha1sum? More specifically, does an mbox literal with lang tags hash to the same mbox_sha1sum as the same literal without the lang tags (or ignoring lang tags? foaf:mbox as an RDF property, doesn't take literal values, just points to a resource (bnode or URI reference), and xml:lang doesn't affect those. When hashing the (typically mailto:) mailbox URI to generate mbox_sha1sum, we strip out surrounding whitespace and ignore language tagging, which is why lang-tagging the resulting textual property should be meaningless. Probably the 'right' thing to do would to have been to use RDF datatyping, however I find the instance data syntax unhappily verbose, so instead we have to work around the lang tag issues. hope this makes sense, Dan
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