- From: Stephen Allen <sallen@apache.org>
- Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 13:38:32 -0700
- To: public-rdf-dawg-comments@w3.org
My comment has been addressed. Thanks!
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 2:58 AM, Andy Seaborne
<andy.seaborne@epimorphics.com> wrote:
> Stephen,
>
> Thank you for the comment.
>
> The working group agrees that there are use case where such a function would
> be useful. The functions UUID(), which generates a URN UUID IRI, and
> StrUUID(), which generates the string format for a UUID, have been added to
> the SPARQL function library.
>
> http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/docs/query-1.1/rq25.xml#func-uuid
> http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/docs/query-1.1/rq25.xml#func-struuid
>
> We would be grateful if you would acknowledge that your comment has been
> addressed by sending a message to this list.
>
> Andy
> On behalf of SPARQL-WG
>
>
> On 06/02/12 18:41, Stephen Allen wrote:
>>
>> This is a comment for the "SPARQL 1.1 Query Language" working draft
>> (05 January 2012) [1] and the "SPARQL 1.1 Update) working draft (05
>> January 2012) [2].
>>
>> One useful feature I would like to see in SPARQL is a string function
>> that returns a 128 bit UUID (as defined by [3]). This could be used
>> to construct IRIs [4] or string literals. In particular, this would
>> assist greatly in minting new resources in a query for entities that
>> may not otherwise lend themselves to a good naming scheme.
>>
>> Relational databases currently supply this functionality (see [5],
>> [6]). I don't believe the implementation cost would be very high, as
>> libraries exist in many languages to generate UUIDs. The particular
>> RFC 4122 UUID variant could be left up to the implementation.
>>
>> -Stephen
>>
>>
>> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-sparql11-query-20120105/
>> [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-sparql11-update-20120105/
>> [3] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4122
>> [4] iri(concat("urn:uuid:", uuid())
>> [5]
>> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/miscellaneous-functions.html#function_uuid
>> [6] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/uuid-ossp.html
>>
>>
>
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