RE: is/of feature of N3 in turtle/sparql?

-------- Original Message --------
> From: Graham Klyne <>
> Date: 31 May 2005 12:02
> 
> At 03:48 28/05/05 +0200, Dan Connolly wrote:
> 
> 
> > I just realized the other day that SPARQL doesn't have is/of, nor
does
> > turtle...
> 
> My intuition is that SPARQL queries will overwhelmingly be machine
> generated, and that the value of added syntactic sugar will be very
> small.

Interesting.

So far I have found there are machine generated ones, one that are a
template for machine generation (i.e the app writer still reads the
template) and purely hand written ones.

I was being a SPARQL user at the weekend.  I do find myself writing
SPARQL queries inside programming languages (Java mainly for me) - hence
the desire for 'string' to avoid \" everywhere.

	Andy



>  Lacking a compelling functional argument for inclusion, I
> suggest that for the sake of simplicity "is ... of" NOT be
incorporated
> into SPARQL.    
> 
> #g
> --
> 
> > 22:48:25 <DanC> ^sparqlquery select ?pg where { [ foaf:nick "DanC"]
is
> > cyc:socialParticipants of [ contact:homePage ?pg] }
> > 22:48:25 <julie> Bad query (SPARQL syntax error at 'i')
> > 22:48:38 <dajobe> that's not in sparql - is, of
> > 22:48:38 <DanC> oh frap. no is/of in SPARQL
> >
http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/discovery/chatlogs/swig/2005-05-19.html#T22
> > -48-25 
> > 
> > Hmm.
> > 
> > I'm hoping the WG will close all the remaining issues, including
> > http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/DataAccess/issues#punctuationSyntax ,
> > in the next week or so. In particular, punctuiationSyntax is pretty
> > much all set to go this Tuesday. So it would be good to get feedback
> > on this right away. In particular, if you want is/of in, send
> > something to public-rdf-dawg-comments@w3.org .
> > 
> > refs:
> > 
> > N3 primer, on is/of etc. http://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/Primer
> > SPARQL http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-query/
> > turtle http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/discovery/2004/01/turtle/
> > 
> > 
> > --
> > Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
> > 
> 
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