- From: Peter F. Patel-Schneider <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 17:14:57 -0500
- To: www-rdf-comments@w3.org
I believe that there is a missing part of datatypes in the RDF model
theory, and, moreover, that this missing part makes datatypes unusable
in RDF. The missing part is a mechanism for tieing a URI reference to
a datatype.
For example, suppose that I want to have a datatype that takes octal
numerals to the appropriate integer. According to Section 3.4, I
create a datatype whose lexical space is octal numerals, those value
space is the integers, and whose lexical-to-value mapping is the
appropriate one. Suppose further that I only want this one datatype.
I then form the set containing only this datatype (and some other
domain element for XML Literals). Let's call my datatype O and the
datatype for XML Literals X, so I need to form the set { O,X } .
Received on Friday, 24 January 2003 17:16:54 UTC