Re: GROUP BY

Bruce,
   I'm forwarding this to the DAWG list, where folk more  
knowledgeable than I will be able to provide comments.

-R

On 19 Aug 2005, at 07:33, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:


> Rich,
>
> I think I mentioned this before, but one thing that would be nice to
> have in SPARQL is the "GROUP BY" function (in SQL, and now XSLT 2.0).
> Do you know if there's been talk of that?
>
> In the citeprc, the most complicated processing is probably the
> grouping stuff.  Doing it in XSLT 1.0 is even more complicated.  I saw
> Danny A. mnetion it awhile back on his blog, but am not finding much
> more.
>
> The XML result format, BTW, is cool, and I could see just piping it to
> an XSLT processor, except for the limitation that XML content is
> escaped.  I guess one could pipe it first though a script that
> reconstructed it.  Oh well, no time to seriously think about this now
> anyway.
>
> Bruce
>
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