Re: Should strings be plain literals or xsd:Strings by default?

[Tommaso Teofili]

2011/6/20 Reto Bachmann-Gmuer <r...@trialox.org>

> Currently the literal factory returns xsd:String-literals for strings (the
> literal factory only produces typed literals). By contrast EasyGraph (which
> is imported by default on the shell converts to Plain Literals as the
> following Tests shows:
>
> @Test
>    def useStringAsObject {
>        val t = new TripleImpl(new UriRef(("http://example.org/subject";)),
> new UriRef(("http://example.org/predicate";)), "a value")
>        Assert.assertEquals(new PlainLiteralImpl("a value"), t.getObject)
>    }
>
> I think for strings that are not natural language it is better to use
> xsd:String, so I suggest only to convert literals with a specified language
> implicitly to plain literals and use xsd:String otherwise.
>
> Any other opinion on this?
>

+1 from me, I think we should document this decision as users may confuse.
Tommaso