- From: Farrukh Najmi <Farrukh.Najmi@Sun.COM>
- Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 08:53:33 -0400
- To: "Thompson, Bryan B." <BRYAN.B.THOMPSON@saic.com>
- Cc: "'Dan Connolly '" <connolly@w3.org>, "'public-rdf-dawg-request@w3.org '" <public-rdf-dawg-request@w3.org>, "'RDF Data Access Working Group '" <public-rdf-dawg@w3.org>
Thompson, Bryan B. wrote:
>Or do you mean like Prolog predicates with and/or/not operators?
>
>
I am not familiar with Prolog but I suspect the answer is Yes. An example
of what I am talking about is predicates in SQL-92 with and/or/not
operators.
The requirement I see is the ability to restrict the results of the
query by multiple predicates.
The more predicates one specifies, the more specific is the query and
the more restricted is
the result.
Looking at XQuery Requirements:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery-requirements/#N103F4
the closest requirement I find is 3.4.5:
3.4.5 Combination
The XML Query Language MUST
<http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery-requirements/#terminology-must> be able
to combine related information from different parts of a given
document or from multiple documents.
Looking at DAWG requirements I am not sure I see anything like it. It is
possible that "3.1 Multi-edged Paths" was intended
to cover support for multiple predicates.
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Regards,
Farrukh
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