Given the recent discussion on multiple translations of property values, I suggest we consider optional language tags, e.g. "Bonjour"@fr, on plain literal values. This is also consistent with the recent change we made allowing optional datatypes on literals, e.g. "2010-04-14"^^xsd:dateTime
The benefit of allowing optional language tags is that a queries could find values that were explicity tagged. Otherwise we'd have to make up a rule, like the query would ignore the language tag of the actual value. This may be a slippery slope, but if we wanted to allow a match on any text with a given language tag, we could use a wildcard syntax like *@fr, or *@* for any any text with any tag. Regards, ___________________________________________________________________________ Arthur Ryman, PhD, DE Chief Architect, Project and Portfolio Management IBM Software, Rational Markham, ON, Canada | Office: 905-413-3077, Cell: 416-939-5063 Twitter | Facebook | YouTube
