Re: [sub-select] Some examples and discussion

Lee,

> """
> Although the community has expressed opinions on various types of 
> extensions to SPARQL, this Working Group is only chartered to make 
> additions that are expected to be widely used and can be shown to exist 
> in multiple, interoperable implementations. It is not the goal of this 
> working group to make a significant upgrade of the SPARQL language.
> """

OK, I've thought that "significant upgrade" is for rules, rdb2rdf,
merging with some 4GL and other things of same magnitude.


> I'm confident that whatever features we end up specifying we're going to 
> contribute some important advances to SPARQL and the broader Semantic 
> Web community, but I'm even more confident--based on what I've seen 
> since January 2008--that whatever 35 (or so) features we *do not* 
> specify will not lethally harm the adoption and utility of SPARQL. :-)

Well, OK. Let's eat the elephant one bite at a time.

Best Regards,

Ivan Mikhailov.