ISSUE-94: Definition of literals does not include language-tagged strings properly

literal-definition

Definition of literals does not include language-tagged strings properly

State:

CLOSED

Product:

RDF Concepts

Raised by:

Antoine Zimmermann

Opened on:

2012-08-22

Description:

The current definition of literal and langstring says, in substance:

a. Literals consists of 2 things.
b. Langstrings are literals that consists of 3 things.

It must be clear that literals can consist of 3 things as well, before refering on the definition inconsistently. Proposed rewording:

"""
A /literal/ has 2 components which are:
* a /lexical form/ being a Unicode [UNICODE] string, which should be in Normal Form C [NFC],
* a /datatype IRI/ being an IRI that establishes the literal value;
and MAY have a third component which is a non-empty /language tag/ as defined by [BCP47]. The language tag MUST be well-formed according to section 2.2.9 of [BCP47], and MUST be normalized to lowercase.
Literals with a language tag are called /language-tagged strings/ and their datatype IRI MUST be http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#langString.
"""

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1. RE: Disimproved definition of literals in Concepts; close ISSUE-94? (from markus.lanthaler@gmx.net on 2012-11-14)
2. Re: Disimproved definition of literals in Concepts; close ISSUE-94? (from richard@cyganiak.de on 2012-11-14)
3. Re: Disimproved definition of literals in Concepts; close ISSUE-94? (from andy.seaborne@epimorphics.com on 2012-11-14)
4. RE: Disimproved definition of literals in Concepts; close ISSUE-94? (from markus.lanthaler@gmx.net on 2012-11-14)
5. Re: Disimproved definition of literals in Concepts; close ISSUE-94? (from ivan@w3.org on 2012-11-07)
6. RE: Disimproved definition of literals in Concepts; close ISSUE-94? (from markus.lanthaler@gmx.net on 2012-11-07)
7. Re: Disimproved definition of literals in Concepts; close ISSUE-94? (from richard@cyganiak.de on 2012-11-07)
8. Re: Disimproved definition of literals in Concepts; close ISSUE-94? (from pierre-antoine.champin@liris.cnrs.fr on 2012-11-07)
9. Re: Disimproved definition of literals in Concepts; close ISSUE-94? (from markus.lanthaler@gmx.net on 2012-11-06)
10. Re: Disimproved definition of literals in Concepts; close ISSUE-94? (from antoine.zimmermann@emse.fr on 2012-11-06)
11. Disimproved definition of literals in Concepts; close ISSUE-94? (from richard@cyganiak.de on 2012-11-06)
12. RDF-ISSUE-94 (literal-definition): Definition of literals does not include language-tagged strings properly [RDF Concepts] (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2012-08-22)

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