RE: Editorial suggestion for CREATE operation

Dear David,

> No, I think that wording still needs to be corrected, because 
> the sentence does not limit that clause to the case of empty 
> graphs.  I suggest qualifying that clause as follows:
> [[
> Since (non graph-aware) Graph Stores may remove graphs that 
> are left empty, for such Graph Stores any CreateOperation 
> performed on an empty or non-existent graph may be viewed as 
> implicitly immediately followed by a DropOperation (see next 
> subsection), or simply as an operation with no effect.
> ]]

Thanks, I have taken your suggested wording into account 
as an editorial change reflected in the current Editors' Draft at:

 http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/docs/update-1.1/Overview.xml

Additionally, I also made a clarifying edit to the similar 
note on the ClearOperation, by changing

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Since (non graph-aware) Graph Stores may remove graphs that are left empty, for such Graph Stores any ClearOperation may be viewed as immediately followed by a DropOperation, see below.
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to 

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Since (non graph-aware) Graph Stores may remove graphs that are left empty, for such Graph Stores any ClearOperation performed on a named graph may be viewed as immediately followed by a DropOperation, see below. 
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Please let us know whether this response Addresses/clarifies your 
concern.

Axel

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Booth [mailto:david@dbooth.org] 
> Sent: Monday, 14 May 2012 2:54 PM
> To: Polleres, Axel
> Cc: public-rdf-dawg-comments
> Subject: RE: Editorial suggestion for CREATE operation
> 
> Hi Axel,
> 
> No, I think that wording still needs to be corrected, because 
> the sentence does not limit that clause to the case of empty 
> graphs.  I suggest qualifying that clause as follows:
> [[
> Since (non graph-aware) Graph Stores may remove graphs that 
> are left empty, for such Graph Stores any CreateOperation 
> performed on an empty or non-existent graph may be viewed as 
> implicitly immediately followed by a DropOperation (see next 
> subsection), or simply as an operation with no effect.
> ]]
> 
> Thanks,
> David
> 
> On Mon, 2012-05-14 at 08:36 +0200, Polleres, Axel wrote:
> > Dear David,
> > 
> > As for the paragraph you quote:
> > 
> > > However, I just noticed the "Note" below that section, which says 
> > > that any CREATE may be viewed as immediately followed by a DROP:
> > > [[
> > > Since (non graph-aware) Graph Stores may remove graphs 
> that are left 
> > > empty, for such Graph Stores any CreateOperation may be viewed as 
> > > implicitly immediately followed by a DropOperation (see next 
> > > subsection), or simply as an operation with no effect.
> > > ]]
> > 
> > Please note that it says explicitly here that
> > 
> > "(non graph-aware) Graph Stores may remove graphs  *that are left 
> > empty* "
> > 
> > Thus, existing contents (i.e. non-empty graphs) wouldn't be 
> possibly 
> > affected.
> > 
> > Please let us know whether this response Addresses/clarifies your 
> > concern.
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > Axel
> > 
> >  
> 
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