RDF Issue rdfms-literalsubjects from Brian McBride on 2002-02-18 (www-rdf-comments@w3.org from January to March 2002) (original) (raw)

Tim,

In

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Feb/0172.html

you raised an issue which was captured in

http://www.w3.org/2000/03/rdf-tracking/#rdfms-literalsubjects

as

[[[ Should the subjects of RDF statements be allowed to be literals? ]]]

As recorded in

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-rdfcore-wg/2002Feb/0476.html

the RDFCore WG has decided to close this issue:

o the WG resolves that the current syntaxes (RDF/XML, n-triples, graph syntax) do not allow literals as subjects.

o the WG notes that it is aware of no reason why literals should not be subjects and a future WG with a less restrictive charter may extend the syntaxes to allow literals as the subjects of statements.

Please could you respond to this message, copying www-rdf-comments@w3.org indicating whether this is an acceptable resolution of this issue.

Brian McBride RDFCore co-chair

Received on Monday, 18 February 2002 11:42:53 UTC