shapes-ISSUE-77 (sh:pattern flags): Shall sh:pattern also support sh:flags? [SHACL Spec]

shapes-ISSUE-77 (sh:pattern flags): Shall sh:pattern also support sh:flags? [SHACL Spec]

http://www.w3.org/2014/data-shapes/track/issues/77

Raised by: Holger Knublauch
On product: SHACL Spec

sh:pattern can be implemented in SPARQL using REGEX, which also supports an optional flag argument as in

FILTER regex("Alice", "^ali", "i")

which will be executed with "ignore case" flag set.

Should this flag option also be added to SHACL? I am not sure if this is consistently supported by all potential execution platforms, yet doing things like ignore case is a common requirement in practice.

Received on Friday, 24 July 2015 05:02:21 UTC