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

On 17/04/11 12:02, Ivan Herman wrote:
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> On Apr 17, 2011, at 12:49 , Richard Cyganiak wrote:
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>> 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,
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>> Yes.
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>>> and its value space[2] are pairs of the form<string,language-tag>
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>> Not quite. According to [2], the value space are all<string,lang-tag>  pairs *and* all strings.
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>>> Ie, datatype("chat"@en) would return rdf:PlainLiteral.
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>> 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
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> Correct. Would that create huge problems?

Yes.  Existing queries will break.

	Andy

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>> Best,
>> Richard
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