On 24 May 2011, at 10:57, Andy Seaborne wrote: > This is the latest proposal for adding datatypes for all literals: > > http://www.w3.org/2011/rdf-wg/wiki/StringLiterals/LanguageTaggedLiteralDatatypeProposal > > It obviously affects Jena because current code was written when plain > literals didn't have datatypes. > > Reactions?
Difficult to grasp at first reading. The only real difficulties I've encountered with plain literals were in SPARQL (certain functions catch people out), and of course the dreaded xsd:string. As far as I can tell this will make SPARQL functions a bit more regular around literals, and have a little impact on (de)serialisers. I don't think it will have any actual impact on jena stores or even APIs, will it? We'd lose some null return values (hurrah). Not huge benefits, but not huge disruption either. > (I'd prefer xsd:string to be deprecated and no other changes made.) +1, that seems a more efficient use of the working group's time. Damian
