RE: literals and typing

>
>One difficulty might be if you wanted to express in RDF equivalence 
>conditions based upon literals (i.e. two names denote the same 
>person if they are associated with the same email address through 
>property foaf:mbox). But I guess that's just the situation - either 
>RDF has knowledge of builit-in intrinsic datatypes or it doesn't. 
>(and RDF doesn't do equivalence so...)
>
>But such equivalence is simply expressed in RDF as additional statements,

Not in RDF.  DAML+OIL allows such identity assertions but there is no 
way to express them in RDF(S). Just a quibble.

Pat Hayes
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Received on Tuesday, 13 November 2001 22:05:09 UTC