- From: Kendall Clark <kendall@monkeyfist.com>
- Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 11:06:30 -0500
- To: "Seaborne, Andy" <andy.seaborne@hp.com>
- Cc: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, Kendall Clark <kendall@monkeyfist.com>, RDF Data Access Working Group <public-rdf-dawg@w3.org>
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 03:48:17PM +0000, Seaborne, Andy wrote: > Kendall says the design is neutral to service-centric vs model-centric > viewpoints, with multiple operations per service end point (SP) > already. Actually, I've been saying something weaker: I worked hard to try to keep the design as neutral as possible. That was a primary design goal. Not sure if I succeeded or not. > I can also live with services (or models) that offer multiple query > languages since the protocol doc says there are two already (SPARQL, > getGraph). Why these two when the protocol is general? I'll let Kendall > decide. (I think of getGraph as a QL because querying is just getting some > information and getGraph does that.) Please, Andy, I respectfully ask that you *stop* doing that. The protocol doc does *not* say "there are two query languages, SPARQL and getGraph". I don't believe that getGraph is a query language! If the document says that, it's a bug and I'll fix it as soon as I find it. You take the document to *imply* that because you believe -- rightly or wrongly, I don't know -- that "querying is just getting some information and getGraph does that". But that's very different than the document *saying* that explicitly. I'd like to keep the distinction between what the document *says* and what you infer from the document because of beliefs of yours that *aren't in the document* as clear as possible. I do intend to put in examples of other query languages -- Versa, iTQL, and N3QL come to mind as good candidates -- because I think our protocol should be capable of conveying query languages other than SPARQL. But I don't agree that getGraph is a query language. (If it is, then every RDF graph is a query and every XML instance is a query, and I find that way of speaking odd at the very least.) Sorry if this seems snarky or rude. Not my intention at all. Kendall Clark -- Sometimes it's appropriate, even patriotic, to be ashamed of your country. -- James Howard Kunstler
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