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I guess that if people are interested in this, conversation should take place in RDF-interest. | -----Original Message----- | From: Patrick Stickler [mailto:patrick.stickler@n...] | On 2002-02-19 16:59, "ext Manos Batsis" <m.batsis@b...> wrote: | > Take RDF for example, (AFAIK and even worse, last time I | checked) where | > literals cannot be subjects in a sentence (triple). This | essentially has | > to do with the RDF model; a literal there is just that; what if the | > system was able to uniquely identify this literal and refer | to it with a | > *unique* URI; all implemented features applicable to | resources would be | > available for literals as well. | | I don't see the point. Do you wish to talk about an occurrence | of a literal? A concrete example would help. Sorry about that; in short, I would like to see RDF having [resource] at the top of the object hierarchy, where literals are also treated as subclasses of [resource] and of some primitive type probably taken by the xsd namespace. This is common: :manos xx:age "22". How about "22" aa:typeOf xsd:int Of cource the above idea crashes when we add this to the picture :mySweater xx:label "22" "22" aa:typeOf xsd:string We have a conflict. Ok, from scratch. How about this: :mySweater xx:label xsd.string:22 There are no conflicts; for example :foo1 xx:size xsd.int:22 :foo2 xx:heightInCm xsd.int:22 :mySweater xx:label xsd.string:22 I'm trying to deal with primitives as unique resources because I see them as such; the difference is they are not addressable as URLs, since a string "ab" is unique, as any string or number or any other primitive. So above, xx:size and xx:heightInCm have the same resource as an object; that resource is the unique "literal of type int:22". Would something like the above ban literals as used today in the RDF model, while introducing the primitive_typing mechanism as most anticipate it? Kindest regards, Manos PS: no I don't speak n3 so :-)
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