- From: Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 17:30:06 -0400
- To: Axel Polleres <axel.polleres@deri.org>
- Cc: "Peter F.Patel-Schneider" <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>, sandro@w3.org, public-rdf-text@w3.org
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Axel Polleres <axel.polleres@deri.org> wrote: >> Incidentally, the fact that you can filter using the DATATYPE function >> in sparql is another hint that something is amiss. By my earlier >> analysis, the DATATYPE function should never return rdf:PlainLiteral, >> according to our spec. > > Indeed, *according to our spec*. This is why I prefer Option 2 which makes > this point clear. I would modify it to not try to make it invalid, but instead to make it clear we say nothing about the lexical to value mapping of such literals within RDF and SPARQL. In other words, you can write them, but it won't mean what you think it would. -Alan
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