- From: Andy Seaborne <andy.seaborne@epimorphics.com>
- Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 15:34:06 +0000
- To: Steve Harris <steve.harris@garlik.com>
- CC: Gregory Williams <greg@evilfunhouse.com>, SPARQL Working Group <public-rdf-dawg@w3.org>
On 28/11/10 15:14, Steve Harris wrote:
>> > If we require it, it seems natural to me to have:
>> >
>> > CONCAT("a"@en, "b"@en) -> "ab"@en
>> > CONCAT("a"@en, "b"@fr) -> "ab" (or error)
>> > CONCAT("a"@en, "b") -> "ab" (or error)
> There are legitimate cases where you might have some literals without tags, and some with, and want to concatenate them, without having loads of logic.
(just sorting out the small details)
This can be achieved by using STR:
CONCAT(STR("a"@en), STR("b"@fr)) -> "ab"
Is that too much logic?
GROUP_CONCAT does require use of STR becuase it uses fn:string-join.
Andy
Received on Sunday, 28 November 2010 15:34:46 UTC