[closed] Re: Minor editorial issues observed in WD-rdf-sparql-query-20051123 [OK?]

thank you!

Seaborne, Andy wrote:
> 
> 
> Reto Krummenacher wrote:
> 
>> Dear recepient
>>
>> I observed some minor editorial things when reading the new SPARQL
>> working draft. You might already have noticed them, but here they come
>> anyway (there might be others that I did not see either):
>>
>> - p.23 (sec. 10.3.3)
>>     example: the query outputs the people with the top
>>     2 sites, rated by hits. that would, from the data be
>>     alice(2349) and eve(181) and not bob(105). however the
>>     query results are ordered in ascending order by default
>>     and thus I would expect the outcome to be bob and eve.
> 
> 
> Corrected - the bNodes labels were all the same leading to incorrect
> pattern matching.
> 
>>
>> - p.23 (sec. 10.3.3)
>>     if I remeber right the outcome of a query containing triples
>>     with anonymous identifiers does not contain the same anonymous
>>     identifiers of course. However I thought that two triples having
>>     the same identifier in the default graph would also have the
>>     same anonymous idenfier in the result set.
>>     this is not the case in the most hits example, as all three
>>     persons are associated with _:a, and the result set contains
>>     _:x and _:y.
> 
> 
> (Note the data was corrupted)
> 
> The _:x and _:y arise from the [] in CONSTRUCT { [] foaf:name ?name }
> not from the data and each template substitution generates new bNodes.
> 
> 
>>
>> - p.27 (sec. 11.2.3.1)
>>     I assume that the first example should have the text: "This
>>     query finds the people with a dc:date property:", as the query
>>     contains FILTER bound(?date) and the result is correctly (IMO)
>>     set to "Bob".
> 
> 
> Fixed text (by removing it).
> 
>>
>> - p.27 (end sec. 11.2.3.1)
>>     The conclusion to the second example seems to be missplaced!
>>     There is nowhere a triple with foaf:mbox in it.
> 
> 
> Fixed.
> 
>>
>> - p.28 (sec. 11.2.3.3)
>>     The explanation to the example seems to be from 11.2.3.2
> 
> 
> Changed to
> """
> This query matches the people with a dc:creator which uses predicates
> from the FOAF vocabulary to express the name.
> """
> 
>>
>> - p.29 (sec. 11.2.3.4)
>>     "This query is similar to the one in 11.2.3.2..." (the link is
>>     correctly pointing)
> 
> 
> Fixed - there has been some renumbering around here since the working
> draft.
> 
>>
>> - p.30 (sec. 11.2.3.7)
>>     In the query result, "bob" would be lower case.
> 
> 
> Fixed (I fixed the data)
> 
>>
>> - p.31 (sec. 11.2.3.10)
>>     IMHO there should not be a match for this query, should there?
>>     Or is it correct that the dates of the query match the one of
>>     the sparql draft in the source graph?
> 
> 
> The date in the data is "2004-12-31T19:00:00-05:00"
> Timezone is -5 hours so is 00:00:00 the next day in UTC.
> 
> The query has "2005-01-01T00:00:00Z" which is UTC - that is, it is the
> same point in time, written differently.
> 
> The "=" is doing a value equality on two literals (xsd:dateTime is a
> datatype that a SPARQL processor should understand) and these two are
> the same value.
> 
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Reto
>>
> 
> Please let us know whether you're satisfied with this response.
> 
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> 
>     Thanks for the corrections,
>     Andy
> 
> 
> 
> 

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Received on Friday, 16 December 2005 13:50:53 UTC