Hey Stefan, looks like "T" (timezone separator) is missing. I think the correct form should be "1920-11-03T+02:00".
http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#date Martynas graphityhq.com On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 8:47 PM, Stefan Seefeld <ste...@seefeld.name> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm exploring the DBPedia SPARQL endpoint both interactively as well as > programmatically (using the Python rdflib module). > > I'm trying to query persons with their birth- and death- dates. > However, many of the returned dates appear ill-formatted. I see cases > such as > > "1920-11-03+02:00"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#date> > > where the given string isn't parsable as a date (and thus the rdflib > automatic conversion from rdflib.term.Literal to datetime.date fails). > > Could someone please explain what's going on there ? Is this a known > issue in the dataset ? Am I doing something wrong in my query ? Are > there any workarounds (and are there plans to fix this in future updates) ? > > Many thanks, > Stefan > > -- > > ...ich hab' noch einen Koffer in Berlin... > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that Matters. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=160591471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Dbpedia-discussion mailing list > Dbpedia-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that Matters. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=160591471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Dbpedia-discussion mailing list Dbpedia-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion
