- From: Axel Polleres <axel.polleres@deri.org>
- Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 13:19:54 +0000
- To: SPARQL Working Group <public-rdf-dawg@w3.org>
Hi all,
A user just made me aware of a small editorial detail we could improve in the query spec to explain lang/langmatches better:
We have the following example for lang in the spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-query/#func-lang
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> .
This query finds the Spanish foaf:name and foaf:mbox:
PREFIX foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/>
SELECT ?name ?mbox
WHERE { ?x foaf:name ?name ;
foaf:mbox ?mbox .
FILTER ( lang(?name) = "ES" ) }
Since the example comes before langMatches http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-query/#func-langMatches
users may be inclined to read that this is the way to match language tags.
The suggestion to improve this is as follows:
1)Add a triple to the graph of the example of lang, i.e.
Data:
@prefix foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> .
_:a foaf:name "Robert"@EN.
_:a foaf:name "Roberto"@ES.
_:a foaf:name "roberto"@es.
_:a foaf:mbox <mailto:bob@work.example> .
2) and after the result add a note with a forward-reference to langMatches, e.g.:
"
Note that "roberto"@es is not returned here returned since "=" used in this FILTER checks for string equality in a case-sensitive manner.
For more general matching of lang-tags, please refer to the function <a href="#func-langMatches>langMatches</a> explained below.
"
Opinions on this suggestion? I am neutral on it, but think it wouldn't do harm.
Axel
Received on Wednesday, 3 November 2010 13:20:29 UTC