On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 10:57 +0100, 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?
Seems like it would work. Seems more disruption than the benefit to be gained but the transition is probably manageable and the end result is maybe a little more uniform. > Personally, I'm neutral. It's a bit easier if all literal had datatypes > but we're not starting from a blank sheet and the bebefit s small. (I'd > prefer xsd:string to be deprecated and no other changes made.) +1 > At Jena3, we could simply make the change; in Jena 2.X, we don't. +1 Dave
