Re: requirement: rdfs query (for lack of a better name...)

On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 08:15:06 +0100, Seaborne, Andy wrote:
> > Isn't that a question of what inference your RDFS engine supports?
> > 
> > If you do RDFS then (?x <rdfs:subclassOf> ?y) will give you
> > all the superclasses of ?y in ?x.
> 
> Agreed, it does - but sometimes the application wants to find direct
> subclass relationships and sometimes all the transitive entailments. e.g.
> writing an editor. It is possible to want the both the direct relationship
> in one part of the query pattern and yet want RDFS inference elsewhere in
> the same query.

Yes, I've had some feature requests for non-infered triple patterns (so
only matching ground facts). Not for on-the-fly transitive closure, but I
can see why it could be useful.

- Steve