On Jun 11, 2011, at 10:55 AM, Alan Ruttenberg wrote: > On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Richard Cyganiak <[email protected]> > wrote: >> That's a good point. The problem is that xsd:string is too narrow and >> rdfs:Literal is too broad. RDF 1.1 is likely to define a class of all string >> literals (tagged and untagged), we'll use that when its name has been >> settled, and perhaps just leave the inaccurate xsd:string in place for now. > > There already exists such a type that is a W3C recommendation. It is > called rdf:PlainLiteral - see http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-plain-literal/ > > I'm not sure why RDF 1.1 working group is not aware of that.
It is. But rdf:PlainLiteral requires the literal to be re-written in an odd and unintuitive fashion. The WG is working out a slight variation on this which will get past that awkwardness. Just be patient... Pat > > -Alan > > ------------------------------------------------------------ IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32502 (850)291 0667 mobile phayesAT-SIGNihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
