- From: Seaborne, Andy <andy.seaborne@hp.com>
- Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 15:31:38 +0100
- To: RDF Data Access Working Group <public-rdf-dawg@w3.org>
> 7. Section 3. Decimal values cannot be written as literals. This > seems like a needless limitation. Suggest SPARQL use the literal > definitions in XPath 2.0. In XPath 2.0, 3.4 is a decimal 3.4e0 is a double (doubles must have an exponent) xsd:decimal is now one of the required supported types in rq23. In the RDF world N3/Trutle/cwm and programming languages would make 3.4 a double; Sesame makes it a decimal. I'm not sure where tht leaves expectations. We could go either way. Either have decimal syntax support, and 3.4 is an xsd:decimal value, or just have integer/double syntax support, requiring xsd:decimals to be written in long form. Last I found of this in the archive is: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-dawg/2005AprJun/0262 which was a default choice (leave as-is) with Eric being mildly for decimal. Andy
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