Re: allow implicitly unbound variables in SPARQL results?

On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 03:43:30PM +0000, Steve Harris wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 10:38:55AM -0500, Kendall Clark wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Dec 9, 2005, at 10:29 AM, Jeen Broekstra wrote:
> > 
> > >There are still a number of possible reasons I can think of to stick
> > >with the last call design however:
> > >
> > > 1. It has been implemented already and changing it will break
> > >    existing tools (but hey, we're a working draft, what do you
> > >    expect?).
> > > 2. The collapsed form esp. will make the data structure more
> > >    irregular and therefore possibly harder to understand, esp. for
> > >    people with table/SQL background.
> > >
> > >I personally find neither reason particularly compelling, but I'd like
> > >to hear the WG's opinion on this, if any.
> > 
> > I agree, neither reason is compelling (and I'm not even sure I agree  
> > with them, but that's beside the point).
> 
> +1, though I'd like to see how much more it complicates XSLT processing,
> as that was more of a concern IIRC.

Duh, they were in Ron's original message.

- Steve

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