Re: Comments on this afternoon session on Turtle (ISSUE-12)

On Apr 17, 2011, at 12:49 , Richard Cyganiak wrote:

> On 17 Apr 2011, at 08:45, Ivan Herman wrote:
>> My understanding is that rdf:plainLiteral is a Datatype (ie, it can be used as part of datatype reasoning in RDF, OWL, or RIF) which is not the case of plain literals,
> 
> Yes.
> 
>> and its value space[2] are pairs of the form <string,language-tag>
> 
> Not quite. According to [2], the value space are all <string,lang-tag> pairs *and* all strings.
> 
>> Ie, datatype("chat"@en) would return rdf:PlainLiteral.
> 
> This would be consistent with the definition of the datatype. But since the value space of rdf:PlainLiteral also contains all simple strings, the same could be said for returning
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>   datatype("chat") == rdf:PlainLiteral

Correct. Would that create huge problems?

Ivan


> 
> Best,
> Richard


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