- From: Andy Seaborne <andy.seaborne@epimorphics.com>
- Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2011 14:19:45 +0000
- To: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
- CC: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>, RDF Working Group WG <public-rdf-wg@w3.org>
> At the moment we have plain literals, rdf:plainLiteral, and > xsd:string literals. They are very very close to one another but they > are officially different. In practice this means that, eg, SPARQL > queries have to have a three branch UNION to handle all of these. > Worth looking at some sort of a reconciliation of these rdf:plainLiteral should not appear in RDF - "just" two branches needed or FILTER because "=" works across plain literals without language tag (SPARQL calls these "simple literals" to distinguish from plain literals with language tag). > Well, the entire world does not use xsd typing, they tend not to use > typing at all:-) But yes, just as the string 123.456 is a syntactic > sugar in Turtle, for example, for a float literal, we could do the > same. xsd:decimal, not a float. Andy
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