On 25 May 2011, at 14:14, Peter Frederick Patel-Schneider wrote: >> One motivation is to have DATATYPE("foo"@en) return something other than error/undefined in SPARQL. > > Umm, isn't that SPARQL business? SPARQL is not in the business of introducing new datatypes. No existing datatype would be a very compelling answer to that query. > Also, rdf:PlainLiteral could be used for this already. That would be possible but unsatisfying. The rdf:PlainLiteral datatype is too unspecific, it's broader than language-tagged literals. And it would be weird if the lexical form of the literal is ill-formed according to the type reported by DATATYPE. Best, RichardReceived on Wednesday, 25 May 2011 13:59:58 GMT
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