Re: ACTION-122: Proposal for ISSUE-18

ashok malhotra wrote:
> Minor comment.  How about QueryRowSourceClass rather than 
> QueryResultRowSourceClass.
I am okay with this change. It is a shorter and simpler name. ("Query" 
happen to have the same length as "Named" also. :-))
So, if everyone agrees, we could go ahead with rr:QueryRowSourceClass as 
the revised class name.

Thanks,
- Souri.
> Other than that, I like the proposal.
> All the best, Ashok
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> On 5/4/2011 7:04 AM, Alexander De Leon wrote:
>> I also like the RowSource name. Here is the updated UML.
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>> Alex
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>> On 04/05/2011, at 15:55, Ivan Herman wrote:
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>>> On May 4, 2011, at 15:34 , Souripriya Das wrote:
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>>>> I too like Alexander's proposal. Abstracting the details of, what we call a rowsource, away from TriplesMap seems nice.
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>>>> Maybe we need to change the names a bit. Specifically, while "relation" is a well-understood term in relational algebra, its use causes some confusion with relationship (or predicates) in RDF.
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>>> Being the archetype of an RDF savy person who has no experience/knowledge in relational algebra, I fully agree:-) It took me a while to understand the proposal due to this misunderstanding!
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>>>> So, instead of "relation", we could use "rowSource" as the theme term. For example, instead of rr:relation we could use rr:rowSource as the property name whose value identifies the source for the rows that a TriplesMap is trying to map to RDF triples.
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>>>> Using this new naming in Alex's example:
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>>>> <TriplesMap1>
>>>> 	a rr:TriplesMapClass;
>>>> 	rr:rowSource<MyTable>;
>>>> 	...
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>>>> <TriplesMap2>
>>>> 	a rr:TriplesMapClass;
>>>> 	rr:rowSource<GetFailStudents>;
>>>> 	...
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>>>> <TriplesMap3>
>>>> 	a rr:TriplesMapClass;
>>>> 	rr: rowSource<GetFailStudents>;
>>>> 	...
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>>>> <MyTable>
>>>> 	a  rr:ReferencableRowSourceClass;
>>>> 	rr:tableName "my_table";
>>>> 	rr:tableOwner "my_schema".
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>>>> <GetFailStudents>
>>>> 	a  rr:QueryResultRowSourceClass;
>>>> 	rr:SQLQuery "SELECT id, name FROM my_schema.students WHERE grade<  50".
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>>>> Thanks,
>>>> - Souri.
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