Re: NULLs and the direct mapping (ISSUE-42) (was: Re: Q: ISSUE-41 bNode semantics)

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> I believe that's possible already, without translating NULLs. Where do you
> see difficulties with that?
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> Not sure if I understand, but isn't this taken care of by the rdf:type and
> ID triples that are produced for Bob, and not produced for Sue?
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Yes, I see that now (after email from Alexandre). For some reason I was
thinking that the Direct Mapping "merges" some tables based on patterns that
it sees in the schema foreign key relationships (but maybe I imagined that,
I would need to review the Direct Mapping again). So that is one question to
clarify. The other question is whether it is more practical to query on the
presence of a NULL value in a triple rather than the absence of a triple
especially in light of the goal of using SPARQL 1.0.

-David

Received on Thursday, 19 May 2011 13:24:32 UTC