- From: Antoine Zimmermann <antoine.zimmermann@insa-lyon.fr>
- Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2011 10:37:10 +0200
- To: public-rdf-wg@w3.org
This has been already discussed and it's very problematic. The conclusion was clearly "we won't do this". From the RDF spec perspective, the lang tag is an opaque string which syntactically follows RFC 5646. So no relation can be inferred (in RDF) between "en" and "en-GB" (that's probably the best we can do). Notice though that a multilingual system may apply further processing on language tags but it is not RDF business. In more details: Le 09/06/2011 09:06, Jan Wielemaker a écrit : > On 06/09/2011 12:25 AM, William Waites wrote: >> rdflang:en rdfs:subClassOf xsd:string; >> rdfs:label "en". this leads to the conclusion that strings with "en" tags are not distinguishable from plain sequences of characters; >> >> rdflang:en-GB rdfs:subClassOf rdflang:en; >> rdfs:label "en-GB". and this leads to the conclusion that strings with "en" tags are not distinguishable from strings with "en-GB" tags. > > +1 > -1 -- Antoine Zimmermann Researcher at: Laboratoire d'InfoRmatique en Image et Systèmes d'information Database Group 7 Avenue Jean Capelle 69621 Villeurbanne Cedex France Tel: +33(0)4 72 43 61 74 - Fax: +33(0)4 72 43 87 13 Lecturer at: Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon 20 Avenue Albert Einstein 69621 Villeurbanne Cedex France antoine.zimmermann@insa-lyon.fr http://zimmer.aprilfoolsreview.com/
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