On Mar 6, 2011, at 19:32 , Steve Harris wrote: > On 2011-03-06, at 16:37, Andy Seaborne wrote: >> On 06/03/11 08:12, Steve Harris wrote: >>>> What about just saying, "please don't use xs:string any more", and >>>> "if >>>>> you (some RDF software) find an xs:string, you SHOULD convert it >>>>> to a plain literal". Would that pretty much solve the problem? >>> That's the inverse of what I suggested just before I read this mail. >>> It works for me (from a storage point of view it's probably simpler), >>> but I understand that it's not ideal for some reasoning systems? >> >> the inverse was: >> On 06/03/11 07:59, Steve Harris wrote: >>> "foo"^^xsd:string -> "foo"^^xsd:string >>> "foo" -> "foo"^^xsd:string >>> "foo"@de -> "foo"^^xsd:string @de >> >> >> I think it works better as >> >> "foo"^^xsd:string -> "foo" >> "foo"@de -> "foo"@de > > I agree, but someone, possibly Pat said there was an issue with untyped literals and reasoning. > AFAIK, no reasoning is defined on non-datatyped literals... Ivan >> because at the moment, code can assume that a literal has either a lang tag or a datatype but not both. If that changes, a niggly bugs may appear. > > Almost certainly, yes. > > - Steve > > -- > Steve Harris, CTO, Garlik Limited > 1-3 Halford Road, Richmond, TW10 6AW, UK > +44 20 8439 8203 http://www.garlik.com/ > Registered in England and Wales 535 7233 VAT # 849 0517 11 > Registered office: Thames House, Portsmouth Road, Esher, Surrey, KT10 9AD > > ---- Ivan Herman, W3C Semantic Web Activity Lead Home: http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/ mobile: +31-641044153 PGP Key: http://www.ivan-herman.net/pgpkey.html FOAF: http://www.ivan-herman.net/foaf.rdf
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