- From: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
- Date: 2003年7月29日 15:35:06 -0400
- To: pat hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Cc: "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>, bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com, www-rdf-comments@w3.org, w3c-i18n-ig@w3.org, msm@w3.org
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Hello Pat, Many thanks for these good news. Regards, Martin. At 00:04 03/07/29 -0500, pat hayes wrote: >Hi Martin > >Just to keep you informed, the latest version of the RDF semantics doc now >avoids all ambiguity and shilly-shallying on these issues. It says >unequivocally that: > >1. XML literals denote things which are in 1:1 correspondence with >canonical XML content but are not, themselves, identical to character >strings. (It defers to the Concepts document for exactly what those things >really are, but just this is enough to make the semantics work properly. ) > >2. XSD xsd:strings denote the same things as RDF plain literals (without >language tags). The reverse isnt quite exactly true because RDF syntax >doesn't forbid the XML-excluded Unicode control blocks, but if you can >write it in XML at all, then its the same string as a plain literal and as >a xsd:string typed literal. > >Pat > >-- >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 home >40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office >Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax >FL 32501 (850)291 0667 cell >phayes@ihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes >
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