Re: Soliciting test suite results for SPARQL query language implementations

Malcolm Crowe wrote:
> Lee,
> Many thanks for your letter about the updates to the test suite. I have
> been tracking the changes and am now releasing a version of Pyrrho DBMS
> which I believe passes all the tests in the test suite, and completed
> testing on 13 September 2007.

Malcolm,

Thank you for letting us know the state of Pyrrho testing against the DAWG 
test suite.

...
> The document about the SPARQL tests is
> http://www.pyrrhodb.org/sparql.htm

Opps - this document has broken links

All images except
http://pyrrhodb.msroot.paisley.ac.uk/org/sparql_files/image020.jpg
are 404.

e.g.
http://pyrrhodb.msroot.paisley.ac.uk/org/sparql_files/image019.jpg
http://pyrrhodb.msroot.paisley.ac.uk/org/sparql_files/image022.jpg

> The only issue I noted is that some of the SPARQL tests seem to regard
> language tags as case sensitive: this goes against the guidance in
> RFC3066.
> I look forward to comments from youselves and the community.

The test results should preserve the case of the input data so that there is 
no presumption of forced canonicalisation in any concrete syntax.

RFc3006 notes that language tags are case insensitive but notes there is not a 
canonical representation:

    All tags are to be treated as case insensitive; there exist
    conventions for capitalization of some of them, but these should not
    be taken to carry meaning.  For instance, [ISO 3166] recommends that
    country codes are capitalized (MN Mongolia), while [ISO 639]
    recommends that language codes are written in lower case (mn
    Mongolian).

RFD [RDF Concepts] says of the abstract syntax:

    Plain literals have a lexical form and optionally a language tag as defined
    by [RFC-3066], normalized to lowercase.

so that equality testing needs to be aware of this when testing in the 
concrete syntax (including in the SPARQL XML results format).

If you would identify which tests you are referring to, we can make sure that 
these principles are adhered to.

	Andy

> 
> Best wishes
> Malcolm Crowe
> malcolm@pyrrhodb.com
> 
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Received on Friday, 14 September 2007 21:16:05 UTC