- From: Antoine Zimmermann <antoine.zimmermann@insa-lyon.fr>
- Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 10:59:56 +0200
- To: public-rdf-wg@w3.org
Le 16/07/2011 18:03, Andy Seaborne a écrit : > > > On 14/07/11 08:36, Antoine Zimmermann wrote: >> In your proposal, rdf:Text is equivalent to rdf:PlainLiteral so it seems >> redundent. >> Moreover, rdf:PlainLiteral was originally called rdf:text (see >> http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-rdf-text-20090421/ for instance) but this >> name was rejected because the concept of "text" includes many other >> features like directionality, font, structure, etc. > > I don't think it's equivalent because by using a definition named by > IRI, you are buying into using everything about definition. By equivalent, I meant as in owl:equivalentClass, not as in owl:sameAs. That is, the extension is the same, and the effect on range statement is the same. > We can't pick some of the rdf:PlainLiteral definition and not also > introduce the rest of the spec. rdf:PlainLiteral is a datatype and has a > lexical space. By using it, we pull in the use of "foo@"^^rdf:PlainLiteral. If we do rely on the rdf:PlainLiteral strictly, then we do *not* pull in the use of "foo@"^^rdf:PlainLiteral because the spec says that you MUST use "foo"@en instead. From Sect.4: "applications that employ this datatype MUST use plain literals (instead of rdf:PlainLiteral typed literals) whenever a syntax for plain literals is provided, such as in existing syntaxes for RDF graphs and SPARQL results." > I do agree "text" can also apply to various aspects - but I can't think > of an alternative name best is rdf:TextString but that still says "text". I have no problem with rdf:Text personally (in fact, I find it quite good) but we should take into account the precedent created by the rejection of rdf:text in the past. > > Andy > -- 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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