- From: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 05:40:10 +0100
- To: www-webont-wg@w3.org
> >The abstract syntax undermines the I18N requirements agreed by the WG. > This has been mentioned in a number of emails, but it doesn't seem > to correspond to anything that I could find in the Requirements or > Issues documents. Can someone explain how to dereference the I18N > identifier? Sorry for speaking in code: 118N = I 18letters N = internationalization The specific requirements are the last three in the requirements doc: i.e. R16. User-displayable labels R17. Supporting a character model R18. Supporting a uniqueness of Unicode strings There is also the goal http://www.w3.org/TR/webont-req/#goal-internationalization The specific features of RDF that support these requirements and the overall goal are: + the use of xml:lang, which for historical reasons becomes embedded within literals in RDF + the use of rdf:parseType="Literal" to permit embedded xhtml which in turn supports a richer variety of languages than simple strings (e.g. bidirectional text, accessability support in labels, ruby annotation for japanese labels) + the use of Unicode Normal Form C in both literals and URI references AS&S appears to deliberately avoid these fundamental building blocks from RDF - not supporting xml:lang, - prohibiting rdf:XMLLiteral (a.k.a. rdf:parseType="Literal"), - treating unicode strings as wholly unproblematic (ignoring the extensive work by the W3C in this area), and hence "undermines the I18N requirements agreed by the WG" Jeremy
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