- From: Peter Wilson <pwilson@gorge.net>
- Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 20:00:51 -0700
- To: public-rdf-dawg-comments@w3.org
I have just finished implementing a SPARQL engine for accessing RDF in Mozilla (not personally affiliated). This was intended to provide a robust way to access RDF configuration files for an IDE I am building. One of the attractions of SPARQL was the way graphs could be aggregated using WITH, and the way the GRAPH clause could navigate to other graphs either using the FROM clause or using query variables. (Aside: I maintain that the FROM/WITH names were cross wired). This was a perfect fits with the Mozilla RDF implementation. I now find that FROM and WITH clauses have now been removed - this is really unfortunate. The reason given, that dynamic graph loading would be required it not compelling. In fact the opposite is the case. If I have a graph (of IDE configuration data) which references one (or more) graph over the web, each time I visit the remote graph(s) it may reference other different graphs on each occasion. The new restriction renders SPARQL useless for my requirements. Dynamic graph reference was SPARQL's strong point, and is an inescapable part of being on the web - Please don't throw it away for temporary convenience. Peter Wilson
Received on Saturday, 9 April 2005 05:16:39 UTC