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Re: XML Redux

• From: "Pete Cordell" <petexmldev@codalogic.com>
• To: "Dave Pawson" <davep@dpawson.co.uk>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 13:50:10 -0000

Original Message From: "Dave Pawson"

> Semantics?
>
> Its a number... as apposed to a string?
> The sender recipient should understand it as 32 somethings,
> the app only knows it can treat it as a number?

But is that level of semantics helpful to a computer?  I'm not sure that 
knowing that something is 32 the number, rather than "32" the string would 
help me much with all the semantic inferencing I can do as a human.  I would 
have thought its even less useful to a computer!

Here's a test:

12^^int

:-)

Pete Cordell
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Pawson" <davep@dpawson.co.uk>
To: <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 10:47 AM
Subject: Re:  XML Redux


>
> On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 10:00:41 -0000
> "Pete Cordell" <petexmldev@codalogic.com> wrote:
>
>> Original Message From: "John Cowan"
>>
>> > I'd add ... and the ability to add XSD simple
>> > type names (prepended with "^^") and language tags (prepended with
>> > "@") to a JSON literal in either order.  N3 allows this on string
>> > literals only, but 32^^integer seems better to me than
>> > "32"^^integer.
>>
>> One thing I'm not clear on is, what value is there in knowing that,
>> say, 32 is a float, if you don't know that that particular float
>> represents, for example, the length of a box?  Surely it's not
>> sufficicient to just know the type of something.  You also have to
>> know what to do with it for it to be useful.  And if you know what to
>> do with it, you implicitly know its type so it doesn't need to be
>> explicitly stated.
>>
>> What am I missing?
>
> Semantics?
>
> Its a number... as apposed to a string?
> The sender recipient should understand it as 32 somethings,
> the app only knows it can treat it as a number?
>
>
>
>
> -- 
>
> regards
>
> -- 
> Dave Pawson
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> http://www.dpawson.co.uk
>
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