- From: Steve Harris <steve.harris@garlik.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:59:42 +0100
- To: Andy Seaborne <andy.seaborne@epimorphics.com>
- Cc: Axel Polleres <axel.polleres@deri.org>, SPARQL Working Group <public-rdf-dawg@w3.org>
On 2011-03-29, at 14:35, Andy Seaborne wrote:
>> b) The second example that one might think would make sense would be to have ADD not preserving bnodes... what is worrying me here a bit is the fact that graphs in diffferent named graphs may have overlapping bnode labels, and that an ADD (likewise any INSERT that transfers data between graphs in the graph store) may result in unexprected new co-references... example.
>>
>>
>> graph<a> _:b1 :p _:b2 .
>> graph<b> _:b2 :p _:b1 .
>>
>> Now note that
>> ADD<a> TO<b>
>> will result in:
>>
>> graph<a> _:b1 :p _:b2 .
>> graph<b> _:b2 :p _:b1 . _:b1 :p _:b2 .
>>
>> that is, bnode labels matter... since now we have created a coreference in graph<b> which wouldn't have happended if ADD would rely on MERGE, i.e. where the result would be something like:
>>
>> graph<a> _:b1 :p _:b2 .
>> graph<b> _:b3 :p _:b4 . _:b5 :p _:b6 .
>>
>> Opinions?
>
> Operations within the store shoudl not name apart. Either they already are apart, in which case there is no problem, or they are not, in which case something intentional was done to make it so.
Well... intentional comes by degree.
As a user I'm not sure that I would expect either
ADD <a> TO <b>
or
INSERT {
GRAPH <G2> { ?x ?y ?z }
}
WHERE {
GRAPH <G1> { ?x ?y ?z }
}
top necessarily copy bnodes across as-is.
It allows you to easily get into a situation where bNodes are shared between >1 graph, which wasn't previous possible with standards, I think.
It's not necessarily a bad thing, but it's also not necessarily expected.
As an implementor I see the internal logic, but I'm, not sure to what degree users see a difference between
LOAD <G1> INTO <G2>
ADD <G1> INTO <G2>
> When ever a file is read, the bNodes don't clash - it takes active measures to have them be the same and that means application intent.
Except if someone uses ADD, or INSERT?
- Steve
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