- From: Arjohn Kampman <arjohn.kampman@aduna.biz>
- Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 10:51:49 +0100
- To: public-rdf-dawg-comments@w3.org
- Cc: Bob MacGregor <bmacgregor@siderean.com>, Thomas Roessler <tlr@w3.org>, Rigo Wenning <rigo@w3.org>, Giles Hogben <giles.hogben@jrc.it>
Bob MacGregor wrote: > The obstructionists keep shouting "use cases" whenever issues like > these come up. I regard SQL was a mountainous use case that dwarfs > the sum of all extant RDF use cases. That means that we should also > be including ORDER BY and GROUP BY in SPARQL Full, an IN operator, > and various other SQL flotsam that have been > very heavily blessed. I fully agree to that. Sesame's SeRQL[1] query language already supports OR, NOT and optional path expressions for a while but this hasn't proven to be enough for a lot of people. Hence we are currently working[2] on adding set operations, subqueries and grouping and aggregation functionality. Sorting will probably be the next step, but it is the most complex feature to translate to an RDF context as it lacks strict data typing. On the other hand, I can imagine that the working group is aiming for a limited version first in order to get the first specification out in finite time. I consider the current SPARQL working draft to be a good first step towards a standardized QL rather than as the single and final step to that. Regards, Arjohn Kampman [1] http://www.openrdf.org/doc/SeRQLmanual.html [2] http://www.openrdf.org/forum/mvnforum/viewthread?thread=245 -- arjohn.kampman@aduna.biz Aduna BV - http://aduna.biz/ Prinses Julianaplein 14-b, 3817 CS Amersfoort, The Netherlands tel. +31-(0)33-4659987 fax. +31-(0)33-4659987
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