Re: Explicit RDF property for "literal has datatype D"?

Christoph LANGE wrote:
>
> y dc:date x .
>
> x a rdfs:Literal ;
>   rdf:value "2008-01-01";
>   ex:datatype xsd:date .
>  
This type of design was considered by RDF Core in 2002/2003 and the
current design was preferred.
You can always drill down in the archives to find some of the discussion.

I think the current design involves less dependence on reasoning to get
things started.

Jeremy