Re: Query and storage

At 10:06 AM 5/24/02 +0100, Dave Reynolds wrote:
>This is particularly significant when doing remote query because it not only
>multiplies up the server time but it multiplies up the data that needs to be
>transferred.

Aha!  I think I see where you're coming from here.  I think that in the end 
one still want to be able to extract (some of) the variable bindings, but 
that could be done as a purely local (re)query on the returned graph?

(I have already recognized the combinatorial issue as a potential problem 
with my approach, but for slightly different reasons.  In some cases, in 
the simple application I developed, I really do want the software to return 
multiple combinations of variable bindings.  But there's a fine line 
between getting enough and getting too much.  I've addressed this by 
splitting up the query into a number of sub-queries that are joined-up by 
application logic - that's a rather ad-hoc solution.)

#g


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Graham Klyne
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