Call for Concensus: Update SPARQL 1.1 test suite to align with changes introduced in RDF 1.1

PR #21 https://github.com/w3c/rdf-tests/pull/21 proposes to remove strdt03 and strlang03 and replace them with strdt03-rdf11 and strlang03-rdf11 which are compatible with RDF 1.1 literal semantics.

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The SPARQL 1.1 test suite expects "abc"^^xsd:string and
"DEF"^^xsd:string to produce an error when passed to STRDT and
STRLANG, leading to ?str1 being unbound in these tests. This is
because STRDT and STRLANG expect their first argument to a "simple
literal". However, in RDF 1.1 "simple literals" are merely syntactic
sugar for xsd:string datatyped literals. Therefore, both of these
literals should be acceptable to STRDT and STRLANG, yielding values
bound to ?str1.
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The RDF Test Curation CG charter calls for a consensus to integrate these tests into the test suite. Also, following this, the tests at www.w3.org/2009/sparql/docs/tests/ should be either synchronized from, or redirected to https://w3c.github.io/rdf-tests/sparql11/.

Note that there are other changes to SPARQL tests being considered: https://github.com/w3c/rdf-tests/issues, so these may be batched together once resolved.

Gregg Kellogg
gregg@greggkellogg.net

Received on Tuesday, 3 November 2015 00:33:14 UTC