- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 12:25:53 -0500
- To: Ashok Malhotra <ashok.malhotra@oracle.com>
- Cc: eric@w3.org, andy.seaborne@hp.com, public-rdf-dawg@w3.org, w3c-xsl-query@w3.org
On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 09:17 -0700, Ashok Malhotra wrote:
> Notes on SPARQL Query Language for RDF
> W3C Working Draft 17 February 2005
i.e. http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-rdf-sparql-query-20050217/
note that there's a newer one...
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-rdf-sparql-query-20050419/
> How is reification supported? That is, how does SPARQL handle values that are themselves triples?
Just like it handles all other values.
SELECT ?st ?s ?p ?o WHERE { ?st rdf:subject ?s; rdf:predicate ?p;
rdf:object ?o }.
Note that SPARQL variables bind to terms, not their values;
so ?st will get bound to a bNode (or URI) that denotes
a statement.
> I assume nested queries are required
No; nothing special is required. Reification is just
a utility vocabulary; it's treated like dublin core
or FOAF as far as SPARQL is concerned.
> but there is no discussion of support for this important aspect of RDF.
Hmm... perhaps we should have an example in the spec or a
test case. This question seems to come up now and again.
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