> <dc:date>2003-03-18</dc:date> could be used by that application but <dc:date
> xml:lang="en-US">2003-03-18</dc:date> could not since it is foreign (unless
> the specific application had knowledge that language wasn't relevant on such
> literals).
>
>
According to the current (!) RDF-drafts datatyped literals are language insensitive,
whereas untyped literals are language sensitive.
<dc:date xml:lang="en-US" rdf:datatype="&xsd;date">2003-03-18</dc:date>
has the same meaning as
<dc:date rdf:datatype="&xsd;date" xml:lang="de">2003-03-18</dc:date>
whereas
<dc:date xml:lang="en-US">2003-03-18</dc:date>
<dc:date xml:lang="de">2003-03-18</dc:date> ...
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