- From: Pierre-Antoine CHAMPIN <champin@bat710.univ-lyon1.fr>
- Date: 27 Sep 2001 11:03:10 +0200
- To: www-rdf-interest@w3.org, www-rdf-logic@w3.org
Sorry to bring back an old debate, probably set up for everyone except me, but their in curently another debate on rdf-logic about the model theory, and the special case of literals make it quite complicated. So I ask: given the existence of a quite convinient URI scheme 'data:', is the Literal/Resource disctinction still necessary in RDF? Couldn't we consider that any literal in the syntax should be converted by the parser into a 'data:' URI? This does not need to alter the syntax, and then keeps compatibility with existing RDF bits. Furthermore, this would offer a straightforward solution to some problems like expressing the xml:lang attribute in RDF. Since it was not accepted as a solution, I guess there are some drawbacks I do not see and that anybody could remind me. Or are there?... ;-) Pierre-Antoine
Received on Thursday, 27 September 2001 05:00:15 UTC