[Pellet-users] Rdf:datatype in pellet

[Bijan Parsia]

On Wednesday, July 30, 2008 9:58am, "Wyrwas, Garrett (Mission Systems)" <Garrett.Wyrwas at ngc.com> said:

> We have two issues:
>  First when we get query results with literals we receive back the
> literal with the data type and are forced to parse it back out.

Not if you use str:
  http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-query/#func-str

>  Second, if we run a SPARQL query searching for a literal we get a null
> result returned because we need to specify the datatype but wouldn't
> know what it is.

Not, I think, if you use str.

> We wouldn't know the datatype because we are offering
> an open text searchbox to users who wouldn't know what the datatype is.

er.. str(?x) == whatTheyTypedIn?

Cheers,
Bijan.