- From: Steve Harris <steve.harris@garlik.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 14:07:38 +0000
- To: Axel Polleres <axel.polleres@deri.org>
- Cc: "SPARQL Working Group" <public-rdf-dawg@w3.org>
On 2010-12-21, at 13:49, Axel Polleres wrote: > Hi Steve, > > I took http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-dawg/2010OctDec/0361.html as a basis, where the following was suggested: > > " > ENCODES(string) > Result is a simple literal regardless of string. > string can be simple, or xsd:string > Not clear to me it should apply to LitLang > proposal: it does not (it is an error). > " > > and I hadn't heard objections raised against this as of yet. > Is your proposal to extend encode() towards accepting plain literals with lang tags? Yes. N.B. it's encode_for_uri() in the current text, matching the F&O name. > (would look ok from my side, and consistent with the remaining string functions that also allow this...) > > Actually, I guess I even have a use case for this, i.e. URIs can also use language, e.g. > > http://www.weihnachten.at/ > http://www.christmas.co.uk/ > > If you want to create such language dependent URIs from text, you may want encode() to work on language tagged literals... Exactly. - Steve -- Steve Harris, CTO, Garlik Limited 1-3 Halford Road, Richmond, TW10 6AW, UK +44 20 8439 8203 http://www.garlik.com/ Registered in England and Wales 535 7233 VAT # 849 0517 11 Registered office: Thames House, Portsmouth Road, Esher, Surrey, KT10 9AD
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