Eric Prud'hommeaux wrote: > On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 10:04:19PM -0400, Ron Alford wrote: > >>After consulting with the lab, we have decided that the namespace >>splitting proposal (_!:...) is the best way to deal with the use cases >>that have been brought up. > > > Given that the grammar does not assign any conflicting meaning to > _!:..., would postponing this to SPARQL 2 acceptable? > > Before you answer, allow me to lead the question a little: none of the > query languages we surveyed have this capability. > Serql has the capability now, and apparently Jena has had api solution involving prebinding (not sure how long this has been around). When we first started this conversation, I was in agreement with you - that if we found a non-conflicting solution that it would be enough to postpone it until SPARQL 2. However, during the course of the discussion I've seen enough incompatible ideas already in use that I think a consensus on the issue would be a very Good Thing. -Ron
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