Re: RDF-ISSUE-80 (rdf:PlainLiteral): Ask OWL and RIF WGs to update the rdf:PlainLiteral spec [RDF General] from Richard Cyganiak on 2011-11-17 (public-rdf-wg@w3.org from November 2011)

From: Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:32:16 +0000
To: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>
Cc: Alex Hall <alexhall@revelytix.com>, Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>, RDF Working Group WG <public-rdf-wg@w3.org>
Message-Id: <D2AA4591-95AB-4414-9581-FA9993967253@cyganiak.de>

On 17 Nov 2011, at 19:33, Sandro Hawke wrote:
> I think it should actually be this group which does the revision,
> though.  

Why?

The rdf:PlainLiteral spec defines a datatype that's defined as being usable only *outside* of RDF graphs. It defines facets for that datatype. It defines XPath functions. None of these things are directly useful for RDF. They all make sense for, and are motivated by, RIF and OWL.

Richard

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