  an answer to the datatype question, plus a rationale  Date:
Sat, 13 Jul 2002 07:14:52 -0400 Message-Id:
<20020713071452F.pfps@research.bell-labs.com>  I wasn't going to
answer the datatype question, because of its many flaws, but I
decided to given *an* answer.  This may not be my final answer
on the subject, as it assumes a different reading of literals
than any currently under consideration by the RDF Core Working
Group.    I believe that the most important thing to get right
is the *treatment* of literals.  This may result in different
answers to A and D, and even different potentially different
kinds of answers to A and D.  I am providing the answer below
partly to show that a different reading of literals can change
the answer to the question.   Under a treament of literals that
has a literal denote a set, namely (potentially a superset of)
the set of data values that some datatype maps the literal to,
the answer to A is YES.  The technical answer to D is NO, but
the real answer to D is YES, in that th