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Add rdf:dirLangString to discussion on value spaces
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of that value. The mapping can be seen as a function
from the lexical space to the value space.</p>

<p class="note"><a>Language-tagged strings</a> have the <a>datatype IRI</a>
<p class="note" id="note-lang-strings"><a>Language-tagged strings</a> have the <a>datatype IRI</a>
<code>http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#langString</code>
(commonly abbreviated as <code>rdf:langString</code>).
No datatype is formally defined for this IRI because the definition
of <a>datatypes</a> does not accommodate
<a>language tags</a> in the <a>lexical space</a>.
The <a>value space</a> associated with this datatype IRI is the set
of all pairs of strings and language tags.</p>
of all pairs that consist of a string and a language tag.
Similarly, <a>directional language-tagged strings</a>
<code>http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#dirLangString</code>
(commonly abbreviated as <code>rdf:dirLangString</code>)
also have a <a>base direction</a>.
The <a>value space</a> associated with this datatype IRI is the set
of all 3-tuples of a string, a language tag and a base direction.
</p>

<p>For example, the XML Schema datatype <code>xsd:boolean</code>,
where each member of the <a>value space</a> has two lexical
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