Re: LIMIT clause in right place?

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-dawg-comments/2005Apr/0014.html
> Also, when limiting the number of results for a request, I see no 
> way to ask for the "next n", which I think is a commom requirement,

Yes, another comment gave "give me the 1st 10 blorts..." as a
use case, and the WG found it sufficiently appealing to add
it to our use cases...

http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-dawg-uc/#u2.19 
Building a Table of Contents

along with a sorting objective...
http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-dawg-uc/#d4.11 Sorting Results

> and one 
> that I think is much more easily accommodated in the query protocol than in 
> the query language.

Our latest WD includes ORDER BY in the QL...
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-rdf-sparql-query-20050419/#solutionsResults

The relevant issue is not quite closed..
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/DataAccess/issues#sort

but very nearly so...
sort issue ready to close, right? [was: more sorting test cases] Dan Connolly (Monday, 9 May)
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-dawg/2005AprJun/0218.html


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