Fwd: RE: Comments on STRING [OK?][closed]

----- Forwarded message from "Seaborne, Andy" <andy.seaborne@hp.com> -----
    Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 13:39:37 +0100
    From: "Seaborne, Andy" <andy.seaborne@hp.com>
Reply-To: "Seaborne, Andy" <andy.seaborne@hp.com>
 Subject: RE: Comments on STRING [OK?][closed]
      To: Faisal.Alkhateeb@inrialpes.fr

Could you send this to the comments list, please?  That way it will get noted 
by the chair (and his scripts :-).

	Thanks
	Andy


-------- Original Message --------
> From: Faisal.Alkhateeb@inrialpes.fr <mailto:Faisal.Alkhateeb@inrialpes.fr>
> Date: 27 March 2006 12:52
> 
> Quoting "Seaborne, Andy" <andy.seaborne@hp.com>:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > Faisal.Alkhateeb@inrialpes.fr wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > >   Regadring the string in sparql, if we have the following DATA:
> > > 
> > > DATA:
> > > @prefix foaf:       <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> .
> > > 
> > > _:a  foaf:name       "Robert"@EN.
> > > _:a  foaf:name       "Roberto"@ES.
> > > _:a  foaf:mbox       <mailto:bob@work.example> .
> > > 
> > > And the following query:
> > > 
> > > PREFIX foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> SELECT ?name ?mbox  WHERE
> > >             { ?x foaf:name  ?name ; foaf:mbox  ?mbox .
> > >          FILTER ( lang(?name) = "es" ) }
> > > 
> > > I think that this query fails to match "es" in the FILTER.
> > > 
> > > And what about if we have 'ES' or '''ES''',  does the query match
> > > the DATA
> > or
> > > not?
> > > Should we transform the literals to a normal form?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Best regards,
> > > Faisal
> > > INRIA Rhône-Alpes
> > 
> > SPARQL has a specific function to match language tags.  It follows
> > the rules 
> > 
> > of RFC3066.
> > 
> > http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/DataAccess/rq23/#func-langMatches
> > 
> >   FILTER ( langMatches( lang(?name), "es" )
> > 
> > Other examples:
> > 
> > langMatches( "ES", "es" ) ==> true
> > langMatches( "EN-gb", "en" ) ==> true
> > langMatches( "EN-gb", "en-g" ) ==> false
> > 
> > 
> > I hope this responds to your comment - please let us know if it does.
> > 
> > 	Andy
> > ----
> > 
> > There is a new mailing list public-sparql-dev@w3.org for general
> > questions on 
> > 
> > SPARQL.



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