- From: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 16:51:54 +0100
- To: www-webont-wg@w3.org
Jeremy: >> - If we have a non-empty list of supported datatypes I would like >> rdf:XMLLiteral in it. Ian: >You amaze me. Always happy to entertain! For the benefit of those who weren't add the editors' meeting: - this was probably the most contentious part of the day - I review some of my arguments 1) Given a canonicalizing RDF/XML parser (and these exist) then implementing the rdf:XMLLiteral datatype requires a string compare (and nothing more). 2) There is significant benefit in permitting interoperability between OWL and other W3C technologies based on XML. A class of use cases depends on data being entered at one point, either as an XML document, or as XHTML; then going through two or more paths to an OWL system. Along one path the document is read in and written out again in accordance with XML conventions - which may change stuff not in the infoset but should leave, for instance, significant whitespace unchanged. OWL should do its best to permit full interoperation in such a scenario. Part (1) seemed to be the more contentious of these assertions; with many people doubting that canonicalization was easy to implement or could be completed handed off to the parser. Jeremy
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