Re: ISSUE-141: Proposal for sh:type

Why not use instead a formulation that does not depend on whether the type is
a datatype?

peter


On 04/28/2016 08:17 PM, Holger Knublauch wrote:
> Here is a proposal to replace sh:datatype and sh:class with sh:type,
> implemented with the following semantics:
> 
> sh:TypeConstraintComponent
>   a sh:ConstraintComponent ;
>   sh:parameter [
>       sh:predicate sh:type ;
>     ] ;
>   sh:context sh:InversePropertyConstraint ;
>   sh:context sh:NodeConstraint ;
>   sh:context sh:PropertyConstraint ;
>   sh:inversePropertyValidator dash:hasType ;
>   sh:nodeValidator dash:hasType ;
>   sh:propertyValidator dash:hasType ;
> .
> 
> dash:hasType
>   a sh:SPARQLAskValidator ;
>   sh:sparql """
>         ASK {
>             FILTER IF(dash:isDatatype($type),
>                 datatype($value) = $type,
>                 EXISTS { $value rdf:type/rdfs:subClassOf* $type })
>         } """ ;
> .
> 
> dash:isDatatype
>   a sh:SPARQLFunction ;
>   sh:parameter [
>       sh:predicate sh:type ;
>     ] ;
>   sh:returnType xsd:boolean ;
>   sh:sparql "ASK { FILTER (EXISTS { $type a rdfs:Datatype } ||
> dash:isSystemDatatype($type)) }" ;
> .
> 
> dash:isSystemDatatype
>   a sh:SPARQLFunction ;
>   sh:parameter [
>       sh:predicate sh:type ;
>     ] ;
>   sh:returnType xsd:boolean ;
>   sh:sparql "ASK { FILTER ($type IN (xsd:string, xsd:integer, xsd:date, ...))
> }" ;
> .
> 
> The definition above uses helper SHACL functions, but these can of course be
> in-lined for the official document. The definition of such functions has the
> benefit that the logic to determine whether something is a datatype or not can
> be reused.
> 
> The enumeration in isSystemDatatype would be extended with the other RDF 1.1
> datatypes including rdf:langString and rdf:HTML.
> 
> Open questions include whether the rdf:type rdfs:Datatype triple needs to be
> in the shapes graph and whether we need to support subclasses of
> rdfs:Datatype. I have no strong opinions, and changing this would be trivial.
> 
> This would close ISSUE-141 for me, assuming we add a corresponding sh:typeIn.
> 
> Holger
> 
> 

Received on Friday, 29 April 2016 07:50:40 UTC