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GH-66: Replace 'character string'
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afs authored and pfps committed Jan 31, 2025
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called the
<span id="dfn-lexical-to-value-mapping"><!-- refer to RDF Concepts term --></span>
<dfn data-cite="RDF12-CONCEPTS#dfn-lexical-to-value-mapping">lexical-to-value mapping</dfn>,
from a lexical space (a set of character strings) to values.
from a lexical space (a set of <a data-cite="RDF12-CONCEPTS#dfn-rdf-string">strings</a>)
to values.
The function <dfn>L2V</dfn> maps datatypes to their lexical-to-value mapping.
A literal with datatype d <a>denotes</a> the value obtained by applying this mapping
to the character string sss: L2V(d)(sss).
to the <a data-cite="RDF12-CONCEPTS#dfn-lexical-form">lexical form</a>
sss: L2V(d)(sss).
If the literal string is not in the lexical space,
so that the lexical-to-value mapping gives no value for the literal string,
then the literal has no referent.
The <dfn>value space</dfn> of a datatype is the range of the <a>lexical-to-value mapping</a>.
Every literal with that type either <a>denotes</a> a value in the value space of the type,
or fails to denote at all.
An <dfn>ill-typed</dfn> literal is one whose datatype IRI is <a>recognized</a>,
but whose character string is assigned no value by the <a>lexical-to-value mapping</a>
but whose
<a data-cite="RDF12-CONCEPTS#dfn-lexical-form">lexical form</a>
is assigned no value by the <a>lexical-to-value mapping</a>
for that datatype.</p>

<p>RDF processors are not required to <a>recognize</a> any datatype IRIs other than

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