- From: Axel Polleres <axel.polleres@deri.org>
- Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 16:45:19 +0000
- To: Andy Seaborne <andy.seaborne@epimorphics.com>
- Cc: "SPARQL Working Group" <public-rdf-dawg@w3.org>
On 11 Jan 2011, at 16:37, Andy Seaborne wrote: > (this is out of date - the current draft has more work on this area) > > On 11/01/11 14:45, Axel Polleres wrote: > > Looked briefly over the numeric, date, etc functions, looks great! > > > > Just a small question for the moment regarding: > > > > " > > 17.4.5.9 tz > > > > simple literal timezone (xsd:dateTime arg) > > > > Returns the timezone part of arg as a simple literal. > > " > > > > we should mention what happens when the timezone part is empty. in fn:timezone-from-dateTime > > this returns an ewmpty sequence, what is our equivalent of returning an empty sequence? an empty sting literal? > > or shall we return an error? that question actually may also apply to 17.4.5.8 timezone. > > timezone(no TZ) raises an error because we have nothing for empty > sequence AKA nil (rdf:nil would be confusing IMHO). +1 to nil being a bit awkward. > > tz(no TZ) returns "" ok wirth me in principle, but why differnet behavior from timezone? thanks, Axel > > > Andy >
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