Re: Applying the relational model to SPARQL

* Bob MacGregor <bmacgregor@siderean.com> [2006-11-10 08:55-0800]
> That brings us to SPARQL.  SPARQL is a major disappointment.  The most
> grievous error is the distinction between the WHERE and FILTER clauses.
> The faceted navigation product that my company sells generates RDF
> queries that cannot be expressed in SPARQL because they frequently
> use an OR connective that includes both statements and filters within
> the disjuncts.  In otherwords, the queries we routinely execute cannot
> be processed by a SPARQL query engine.

Could you outline such a query in the syntax of your choice? I may
require an english explanation of the query in order to understand it.

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-eric

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