Re: Please Review: RDFCore WG new specs (2003-11-05), esp. w.r.t. I18N and XMLLiteral

A reminder: please take a look at these Working Drafts. The WG is in the 
process of preparing for a second Last Call phase, consolidating  
changes made in response to feedback received during our earlier LC and 
subsequently. If you have additional comments to make on these drafts, 
please send them to www-rdf-comments in time for our teleconference next 
week (ie. by 2nd Oct).

Many thanks,

Dan

* Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org> [2003-09-17 12:07-0400]
> 
> RDF IG,
> 
> Just in case anyone hadn't seen this (sorry should've mailed this list
> earlier), the RDF Core WG have published 6 new Working Drafts 
> (RDF Primer, Concepts, Semantics, Syntax, Schema, Tests) as well as a 
> Working Group Note revising the LBase document. See announcement at 
> http://www.w3.org/News/2003#item147 for details and links.
> 
> These documents consolidate changes and editorial improvements
> undertaken in response to feedback received by RDF Core during the 
> Last Call period which began on 23 January 2003.(*)
> 
> See each document for details of changes from previous versions. The WG 
> would in particular like to draw attention to our current treatment of 
> XML Literals, datatyping and Internationalization (xml:lang). 
> 
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-rdf-mt-20030905/#change details the exact
> changes. We now treat XML literals uniformly alongside other typed
> literals. Coupled with our simplified treatment of language tags in
> literals (typed literals, including XML literals, no longer carry
> language tags), this means that any language tagging of XML literal
> content needs to be achieved through the 'payload' content of the XML
> literal. The RDF/XML syntax does not 'push down' xml:lang declarations 
> that occur outside each parseType="Literal" element, requiring 
> xml:lang attribute to be explicitly used within each XML fragment. 
> This design was reached after considering a variety of options 
> and designs for RDF literals, datatyping and integration with 
> the OWL language. The WG seeks feedback from implementors and 
> users of RDF. discussion on the RDF IG lists is encouraged. 
> Feedback to the Working Group on the specs should be sent 
> to www-rdf-comments@w3.org
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Dan
> 
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> 
> (*) as I write this I note an unfortunate error in the Status section of
> the Schema spec. I wrote (over-zealous search'n'replace...)
> "...feedback received during the Last Call publication of the RDFCore
> specifications which began on 05 September 2003." instead of giving the 
> correct date, 23 January 2003. My apologies for any confusion.

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