Clarification needed on BIND

• From: David Booth <david@dbooth.org>
• Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 11:40:45 -0400
• To: public-rdf-dawg-comments <public-rdf-dawg-comments@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <1315410045.2882.10766.camel@dbooth-laptop>

Regarding sec 10.1 "BIND: Assigning to Variables":
http://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-query/#bind

What happens if the same variable is bound more than once using BIND?
For example:

PREFIX  dc:  <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/>
PREFIX  ns:  <http://example.org/ns#>
SELECT  ?title ?price
{  
   BIND (?title as "The World")
   BIND (?title as "The Universe")
   ?x dc:title ?title ; ns:price ?p .
}

Should this be handled as:

 - an error?

 - both bindings are used (to produce multiple solutions)?

 - The first or last BIND statement for ?title takes precedence?

It would be helpful to clarify this in the spec.

Thanks

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Received on Wednesday, 7 September 2011 15:41:14 UTC