- From: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 12:01:26 -0400
- To: www-rdf-logic@w3.org
It seems to me that literals simply have no place in the RDF graph or the model theory. Literals are only an issue for RDF Graph encoding languages like RDF/XML or RDF/N-Triples. A parser for RDF/XML should map a string literal into an unlabeled node about which it adds the same information as the literal text conveyed, namely that it is a sequence of unicode characters, and which characters are in that sequence. A generator for RDF/XML should look for nodes about which it has this information and output them as string literals. Parser and generators should behave similarly with XML/infoset literals, whatever they turn out to be. We obviously have to pick the node labels which will be used to describe these things, of course, if we want our parsers and encoding languages to be interoperable. I've put together a rough ontology for this, living at its namespace: "http://www.w3.org/2001/10/05-string". Isn't this a lot cleaner? -- sandro
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