Re: Comments on this afternoon session on Turtle (ISSUE-12)

On 2011-04-17, at 12:02, Ivan Herman wrote:
> 
> On Apr 17, 2011, at 12:49 , Richard Cyganiak wrote:
> 
>> On 17 Apr 2011, at 08:45, Ivan Herman wrote:
>>> My understanding is that rdf:plainLiteral is a Datatype (ie, it can be used as part of datatype reasoning in RDF, OWL, or RIF) which is not the case of plain literals,
>> 
>> Yes.
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>>> and its value space[2] are pairs of the form <string,language-tag>
>> 
>> Not quite. According to [2], the value space are all <string,lang-tag> pairs *and* all strings.
>> 
>>> Ie, datatype("chat"@en) would return rdf:PlainLiteral.
>> 
>> This would be consistent with the definition of the datatype. But since the value space of rdf:PlainLiteral also contains all simple strings, the same could be said for returning
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>>  datatype("chat") == rdf:PlainLiteral
> 
> Correct. Would that create huge problems?

Well, rdf:PlainLiteral is not supposed to appear in RDF data, as I understand it. It would also change existing SPARQL queries in a way that users may not expect.

- Steve

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