rdfs:Literal not a RDF datatype

• From: Guus Schreiber <schreiber@cs.vu.nl>
• Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 13:27:45 +0200
• To: WebOnt WG <www-webont-wg@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <3EDDD7B1.4010306@cs.vu.nl>

One of the comments from RDFCore on Reference is the following:
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webont-comments/2003May/0004.html
 > #owlref-rdfcore-rdfs:literal-not-a-datatype
 >
 > [[
 > A typed literal needs to have an XML attribute rdf:datatype of which
 > the value is recommended to be one of the following:
 > ...
 >
 > # The RDF datatype rdfs:Literal  which is the class of literals,
 > typed and plain.
 > ]]
 >
 > rdfs:Literal is not a datatype.
OK, so it should be removed from this list. Still, I assume we do not 
want to forbid the use of rdfs:Literal as a possible data range. 
Therefore, I wanted to change the following paragraph
[[
OWL allows two types of data range specifications:
     * A RDF datatype specification.
     * An enumerated datatype, using the owl:oneOf construct.
]]
to
[[
OWL allows two types of data range specifications:
     * A RDF datatype specification.
     * The class rdfs:Literal
     * An enumerated datatype, using the owl:oneOf construct.
]]
However, when consulting S&AS on this, I found in the list of datatypes 
in Sec. 2:
[[
OWL also uses rdfs:Literal
]]
The production in Sec. 2.3.2.3 states:
[[
dataRange ::= datatypeID
             | 'oneOf(' { dataLiteral } ')'
]]
where "datatypeID" translates according to the mapping table into the 
triple:
[[
  	datatypeID rdf:type rdfs:Datatype
]]
So, something needs to change here, when rdfs:Literal is indeed not an 
rdf:Datatype.
Guus
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