RE: Literals (Re: model theory for RDF/S)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext David Allsopp [mailto:d.allsopp@signal.qinetiq.com]
> Sent: 02 October, 2001 13:36
> To: www-rdf-logic@w3.org
> Cc: www-rdf-logic@w3.org
> Subject: Re: Literals (Re: model theory for RDF/S)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Patrick.Stickler@nokia.com wrote:
> 
> > > Also, as written literals can't include spaces.  The 
> literal should be
> > > enclosed in doublequotes, with a universal convention about how
> > > to put unusual characters (such as " itself) inside doublequotes.
> > 
> > Well, they'd be resources, encoded via URIs, not literals. 
> So no quotes
> > are needed. The idea is to eliminate the need for the 
> concept of literals
> > entirely from RDF, such that *everything* is a resource, period. 
> 
> You still need to be able to encode arbitrary strings, 
> including spaces,
> into your new URIs.
> 
> Let's say I currently have MyResource--hasProperty-->"Some
> human-readable notes about it" where the object of this triple is a
> literal.
> 
> If I then change that literal into some form of URI, we have 
> to be able
> to preserve the spaces, encoded in some way that is URI-legal.
> 
> e.g. dt:string:Some+human+readable+notes+about+it (with some suitable
> way of escaping special characters).

Absolutely. Sorry, I thought that was understood. My fault for
failing to make explicit what I was thinking implicitly.

In any case, to that end, there exist well defined and well
understood mechanisms for encoding arbitrary strings as URIs,
with that defined for URL encoding probably being the most
common and having the broadest tools support.

(Dang, and I meant to stay away from the list till I got that other 
stuff done...   once a list junkie, always a list junkie...  ;-)

Cheers,

Patrick

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Received on Tuesday, 2 October 2001 06:49:06 UTC