Re: language-tagged literal datatypes

Andy,

On 29 Aug 2011, at 18:04, Andy Seaborne wrote:
>>> The "non-empty lexical space" restriction seems to be artificial.
>> 
>> What's the reference for that restriction? AFAICT, an empty lexical space is consistent with RDF 2004 and XSD (1.0 and 1.1).
> 
> http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-mt/#dtype_interp
> 
> Point 1:
> 
> [[
> Formally, a datatype d is defined by three items:
> 
> 1. a non-empty set of character strings called the lexical space of d;
> 
> 2. a non-empty set called the value space of d;
> 
> 3. a mapping from the lexical space of d to the value space of d, called the lexical-to-value mapping of d.
> 
> The lexical-to-value mapping of a datatype d is written as L2V(d).
> ]]

Oh. Thanks, I hadn't seen this.

I'd call it a buglet in RDF Semantics.

This is now ISSUE-76:
http://www.w3.org/2011/rdf-wg/track/issues/76

Best,
Richard

Received on Monday, 29 August 2011 18:16:02 UTC