my action item

Re. my action item from today's telecon.

After looking at Andy's examples in 
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-dawg/2006AprJun/0104.html
more closely, his example 6 seems to behave correctly for the issue 
that you were raising, if I understand it properly. In which case no 
further examples are needed, and my action item is moot.

So let me see if I have got this right.

My understanding of your concern was that we had a nonmonotonic 
situation because a not-equal ( !=) filter, as in example 6, behaved 
as follows: when faced with an unknown datatype, it would revert to a 
string-not-equal test on the literal string, and so succeed when the 
literal strings were distinct but the type URI matches; and then this 
success might transform to a failure when better datatyping 
information is available.

But this is not what the test examples indicate. With this rule, in 
case #6, it would give the answer binding [ x/x1, v/"b"^^t:type1 ], 
but in fact it does not: it gives no answers, as it should in order 
to be monotonic when more datatype information is available. And the 
comment on text 6 seems to  indicate that 'no result' is determined 
in this case for reasons of preserving monotonicity, and works 
symmetrically for equality and not-equality.

So, either the tests are OK, or I have misunderstood your point.

Eric? Or indeed, anyone with anything useful to say?

Pat
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