Re: Looking at the current proposals for SHACL

• From: Holger Knublauch <holger@topquadrant.com>
• Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 14:46:17 +1000
• To: public-data-shapes-wg@w3.org
• Message-ID: <550BA619.6060902@topquadrant.com>

On 3/20/15 1:30 PM, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote:
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> So you are saying that you can either do recursive shapes inside SPARQL,
> which requires an extension to SPARQL, or outside of SPARQL, which requires
> something more than SPARQL.  OK, I'll change the wording to "It provides a
> formal specification for SHACL in terms of SPARQL plus something extra to
> handle recursive shapes."

Yes the critical difference is that option 2 could still be executed 
with off-the-shelf SPARQL processors.

I would also be fine with the same solution that you have, and simply 
disallow recursion at sh:valueShape.

Thanks,
Holger

Received on Friday, 20 March 2015 04:46:48 UTC