- From: Holger Knublauch <holger@topquadrant.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 11:57:28 +1000
- To: public-data-shapes-wg@w3.org
PROPOSAL: Close ISSUE-90 stating that literals can also serve as focus nodes. Holger On 9/21/2015 10:44, RDF Data Shapes Working Group Issue Tracker wrote: > shapes-ISSUE-90 (Literal focus nodes): Can the focus node be a literal? [SHACL Spec] > > http://www.w3.org/2014/data-shapes/track/issues/90 > > Raised by: Holger Knublauch > On product: SHACL Spec > > The spec is vague on that topic, but we need to clarify whether the focus node can also be a literal. My assumption from the SPIN days is that they would only be IRIs and blank nodes, but now I see no real reason for such a restriction. But I have not tried it out yet, so I may be missing some consequences. Does anyone see problems? > > A use case would be to allow sh:valueShape to apply to literals too, e.g. to check its own datatype or length, e.g. for qualified constraints. > > If we change this, then http://w3c.github.io/data-shapes/shacl/#AllObjectsScope should be generalized. > > >
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