Re: ISSUE-12: xs:string VS plain literals: proposed resolution

On 09/05/11 18:11, Pierre-Antoine Champin wrote:
> On 05/06/2011 04:22 PM, Steve Harris wrote:
> <snip/>
>> Not really DATATYPE("foo") is xsd:string already. http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-query/#func-datatype
>
> yes, but it only states that for *simple literals* (that are literals
> without language type, IIRC). It does not seem to say anything about
> literals with a language tag :-(
>
> A test on dbpedia is not really compelling as both datatype("foo") and
> datatype("foo"@en) seem to return NULL, which for the former would mean
> a non-conformant implementation...
>
> http://dbpedia.org/sparql?query=select+datatype%28%22foo%22%29+where+{}
>
> http://dbpedia.org/sparql?query=select+datatype%28%22foo%22%40en%29+where+{}
>
>    pa
>

The function is not defined for plain literal with language tag hence 
it's a dispatch error.  See the table "SPARQL Unary Operators"

 Andy

Received on Monday, 9 May 2011 19:09:45 UTC