- From: Steve Harris <steve.harris@garlik.com>
- Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 11:33:25 +0100
- To: Lee Feigenbaum <lee@thefigtrees.net>
- Cc: SPARQL Working Group <public-rdf-dawg@w3.org>
Not from my p.o.v.
- Steve
On 2011-08-23, at 14:31, Lee Feigenbaum wrote:
> A colleague pointed out to me this morning that the SPARQL 1.1 grammar does not support solution modifiers (including GROUP BY / HAVING) with ASK queries.
>
> This means that you cannot use ASK to ask a boolean question involving aggregates ("are there any countries that have more than 5,000 cities?"). (Well, you can do it using a subquery, but not directly.)
>
> Is this purposeful?
>
> thanks,
> Lee
>
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