N most-recent news items, a use case motivating a SORT requirement

Recent comments traffic suggests a SORT feature/requirement...
I asked for a use case, and got...

[[[
Use case: obtain a given number of most-recent items from a
triplestore-based RSS aggregator. (Something along the lines of
http://pubsub.com which aggregates data from several million feeds -
they use ASN.1 internally btw, though expose XML interfaces).
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http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-dawg-comments/2005Mar/ 
0002.html

Anybody like the idea of addressing that use case in SPARQL?
Any design ideas or implementation experience with sorting?

Hmm... hard to argue that it's a bad idea; I think the discussion we've
had is more of the form "it can wait"; i.e. perhaps it belongs on the
issues list as "postponed".

Thoughts?

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Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/

Received on Tuesday, 8 March 2005 23:27:51 UTC