Re: Input sought on datatyping tradeoff

At 20:18 15/07/2002 -0400, Geoff Chappell wrote:

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>I guess my remaining question boils down to what licenses an rdf processor
>to conclude that the literal on the object side of a datatype property is
>referring to itself while all other literals are (potentially) referring to
>entities other than themselves? Is that just built in to the definition of a
>datatype? because of a implicit or explicit datatype range? or is left to
>"extra-rdf" inference to make that conclusion?

This a good question and I'm don't think I can answer it definitively 
because the WG hasn't decided.  I personally tend to think of it as being 
built into the definition of a datatype, but I'd have to wait and see the 
model theory for this approach before committing myself.

Brian

Received on Tuesday, 16 July 2002 10:00:11 UTC