Re: real-world usage of non-XSD data types?

Somewhere between real world and academics:
- I use a special datatype for storing wiki markup in Hyena [1] which means that I can provide a generic way of displaying RDF and it will get properly rendered wherever it appears.

[1] http://hypergraphs.de/hyena/

On Jan 10, 2011, at 16:09 , Bob DuCharme wrote:

> http://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-query/#matchingRDFLiterals includes the following sample data:
> 
>   @prefix dt: <http://example.org/datatype#> .
>   @prefix ns: <http://example.org/ns#> .
>   @prefix : <http://example.org/ns#> .
>   @prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
> 
>   :x   ns:p     "cat"@en .
>   :y   ns:p     "42"^^xsd:integer .
>   :z   ns:p     "abc"^^dt:specialDatatype .
> 
> Can anyone point me to real-world usage of non-xsd data types like the "abc" example here?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
> 

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Received on Monday, 10 January 2011 15:52:55 UTC