Re: Issue with Jena/sparql.org and XML Literals?

Great! So we have yet another implementation. And we will have covered 
C, Perl, Ruby, Javascript, Python... (plus some other languages that 
redland interfaces to).

Cobol or Ada anyone?:-)

Ivan

Shane McCarron wrote:
> FWIW, I ran into this issue with my implementation as well...
> I have done a DOM based implementation in Perl.  It works well, and 
> currently passes all tests except 100-103.  Once Manu's most recent 
> changes are integrated I am going
> to make a small change to my implementation and then it should pass all 
> the tests.
> 
> My plan is to bundle up my impl as a Perl CPAN package that will (only) 
> generate ntriples. It is "pure perl" in that it requires no C language 
> extensions.  As such, it is portable to all platforms that support 
> Perl.  Could be useful for some.
> 
> Ivan Herman wrote:
>>
>>
>> Manu Sporny wrote:
>>> Seaborne, Andy wrote:
>>>> It is possible to get non-canonicalized XML literals into the data 
>>>> by using datatype XMLLiteral even in RDF/XML.
>>>
>>> So this means that @datatype and @parseType don't do the same thing when
>>> dealing with XML Literal data.
>>>
>>> The string in the element containing @datatype isn't modified at all.
>>>
>>> The string in the element containing @parseType IS modified via XML
>>> Exclusive Canonicalization.
>>>
>>
>> And as I commented before, I wonder whether this is not a bug in the 
>> RDF/XML spec. However, this group should not spend too much time on an 
>> issue that is not for this group to solve...
>>
>>> Ivan, the easiest thing to do at this point is for you to NOT change
>>> your implementation and I'll just write the SPARQL to match what your
>>> implementation generates.
>>>
>>
>> Yes, that is fine.
>>
>>> Although, in light of this new discovery, it makes the learning curve
>>> even steeper for XML Literals.
>>>
>>
>> :-(
>>
>> Ivan
>>
>>> -- manu
>>>
>>
> 

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