- From: Rob Shearer <Rob.Shearer@networkinference.com>
- Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 12:39:58 -0800
- To: <public-rdf-dawg@w3.org>
Users should be able to easily author queries by hand using a text editor. The key word in this requirement is "easily". Take a quick look at XQuery. Obviously several people thought that it was absolutely crucial that XQueries be encoded in XML, and quite a bit of work went into defining the XQueryX serialization method for queries. But nobody really uses it; it is understood that teaching people how the query language works using this incredibly verbose syntax would do nothing but put them off, and requiring queries to be submitted using this syntax means that you need complex tools to author queries. Instead there is a concise, easy-to-read, easy-to-write syntax which puts the language on par with SQL in terms of query composition by humans. If we don't come up with a language that is convenient for mere mortals, then it simply won't be adopted widely.
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