Re: SPARQL Update feature

On 2010-07-13, at 11:46, Alexandre Passant wrote:

[ snip, all looks good to me ]

> We initially thought that ALL includes also the default graph, but that will be a problem for removing all named graphs but not the default one (not sure that will happen so often, yet)
> So better to have ALL = all named graphs, which leads to the following to clean the store
> 
> DROP ALL
> DROP DEFAULT
> 
> or
> 
> DROP ALL
> CLEAR DEFAULT
> 
> What do you think ? 

I prefer DROP/CLEAR ALL does everything, including the default graph. "ALL" implies that to me.

If I really want to leave the named graph, and CLEAR the others I can do that with:

DELETE WHERE { GRAPH ?g { ?x ?y ?z } }

Admittedly there's no DROP equivalent, for graphs that don't do empty graph culling, but that's well into corner cases AFAIC.

Otherwise, you could add a "GRAPH *" like syntax, meaning all named graphs, but I predict that users would confuse GRAPH * and ALL a lot.

- Steve

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