- From: Steve Harris <steve.harris@garlik.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 22:47:10 +0100
- To: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Cc: Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>, Alex Hall <alexhall@revelytix.com>, RDF Working Group WG <public-rdf-wg@w3.org>
On 2011-05-13, at 21:49, Pat Hayes wrote: ... > Advantages: Gives a type to plain literals; preserves rdf:PlainLIteral specs (extending them, but not contradicting them); allows people to use plain literals without getting involved with trailing @; and allows xsd:string to be deprecated in favor of plain literal syntax (or the reverse, of course.) > > Disadvantages: might be thought too complicated; takes the notion of type slightly outside the current RDF datatype specs. > > Thoughts? A lot of this complexity seems to stem from trying to make "foo" be an xsd:string. Instead why no go with Plan A and make "foo"^^xsd:string a plain literal. xsd:strings are significantly rarer than plain literals in realworld RDF data (in my experience), so it's less weird overall to de-type xsd:strings, than to try and add a type to every plain literal. It's not the prettiest solution but probably RDF shouldn't have had explicit xsd:strings in the first place. - 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
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