- From: Antoine Zimmermann <antoine.zimmermann@deri.org>
- Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 09:47:57 +0200
- To: public-rdf-wg <public-rdf-wg@w3.org>
Just a comment and what my votes would have been if I could have joined the session. ======== PROPOSED: Mark xs:string as archaic for use in RDF, recommending use of plain literals instead. Recommend that systems silently convert xs:string data to plain literals. -1 I always thought of plain literals as a written utterance in an unspecified language. This is not what xs:strings are. Strings are a sequence of characters, irrespective of any language. They cannot be translated or assigned a language tag. xs:string should be used for things like serial numbers, identifiers, passwords, etc. I would rather have plain literals with no language tags implicitly meaning xs:string (as Jean-François proposed but it seemed unnoticed). xs:string is not defined by RDF anyway, I don't know why RDF should reject this particular XML datatype. If plain literals with no lang tag are implicitly typed with xs:string, then all literals have either a datatype or a language tag, which simplifies the manipulation of literals. ======= PROPOSED: close ISSUE-18 by requiring digits after the decimal point, as in "18.0". PROPOSED: Allow dots inside local part and namespace part of qnames in Turtle, aligning with SPARQL syntax PROPOSED: Turtle should remain as a syntax only for Triples, some other syntax should be defined to represent quad data +1 to all of these. -- 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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