- From: Andy Seaborne <andy.seaborne@epimorphics.com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:54:45 +0100
- To: public-rdf-wg@w3.org
On 19/08/11 19:06, Lee Feigenbaum wrote:
> On 8/18/2011 7:11 PM, Pat Hayes wrote:
>>
>> Option 2. All literals have a type. rdf:LangString is a special
>> datatype whose L2V mapping takes a pair of strings as input and
>> returns a language-tagged pair as output. This mapping is the
>> identity mapping on pairs<string, tag>, just as xsd:String is the
>> identity mapping on single strings. DATATYPE("foo"@en) returns
>> rdf:LangString, following the normal rules for datatyping.
>
> I prefer this option (or the 2b version).
+1
I care about the effects more than the explanation:
DATATYPE("foo"@en) => rdf:LangString
Turtle and related formats: syntax is "foo"@en
Andy
>> = If a SPARQL querier wants to determine the actual language tag in
>> use, option 2 requires them to look inside the returned value, while
>> option 3 requires looking inside the datatype URI, and can be
>> determined from a DATATYPE query. I have no idea which of these is
>> hardest to handle, but it might be worth thinking about the
>> difference if it matters to anyone.
>
> I don't think this is an issue because of the LANG(...) function
> provided with SPARQL 1.0.
>
> Lee
>
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>> Pat
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>> PS. FWIW, I vote for either 2 or 3, and against 1 or 1a. I prefer 2.,
>> for the reason mentioned above, and because it seems to me to be the
>> most elegant solution.
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>> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-wg/2011Jul/0048.html
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