Fwd: submission from [Roland Schwaenzl <Roland.Schwaenzl@mathematik.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE>]

From: Joseph Coffman (jcoffman@bbn.com)
Date: 11/26/01


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>To: Patrick.Stickler@nokia.com, pfps@research.bell-labs.com
>Subject: RE: Cutting the Patrician datatype knot
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> > No.  I'm proposing that the end result be much more like
> >
> >       s --p--> xsd:du:x
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>puuh! Hiding semantics in ascii-art.
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> > > Though, why use xsi:type rather than rdf:type? Are we saying
> > > that a typed literal resource is a different kind of resource
> > > than a typed non-literal resource, and hence the typing is
> > > declared differently? Are we sure we want to say that? And
> > > are we adopting the full semantics attributed by the XML Schema
> > > spec to xsi:type? What are the implications for broader statements
> > > about XML Schema constructs in general in RDF if we use it for
> > > typing literal resources?
> >
> > Because the xsi:type plays a much different role than rdf:type.
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>?? The lexical->data thing in itself proposes to go along DAML.
>    Clean and easy to understand.
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> > Yes,
> > yes. Yes.  Maybe, although all you need for this to go through is to
> > understand the primitive (and, maybe, the built-in) XML Schema datatypes.
> >
> > I'm not aware of any problems with the rest of XML Schema.  You should
> > still be able to use xsd:integer as a class, for example.
> >
>[...]
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> > Is RDF, and, certainly
> > RDF/XML, not part of the World-Wide Web.  Is the RDF Core WG not chartered
> > to ``build upon XML Schema datatypes to the fullest extent practical and
> > appropriate''?
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>data-typing is to aid processing data and not for changing data -
>RDF is to decribe not to change something.
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>Or?
>
>rs

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