Re: SPARQL semantics: open issues for basic query patterns

On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 19:40 +0100, Enrico Franconi wrote:
> 
> On 27 Dec 2005, at 19:37, Enrico Franconi wrote:
> > a) in the document only 'simple entailment' is used. We want a
> > parametric entailment, with simple, rdf, rdfs explicit at least, and
> > owl-dl and owl possible. The argument here is that due to the infinite
> > closure of RDF graphs (due to rdf:1, rdf:2, etc; or to the
> > reification), this document would not even allow to have
> > implementations that comply with the original RDF MT! Moreover, there
> > are explicit requests about this in the SWBP WG, for example
> > <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swbp-wg/2005Dec/0072>.
> 
> Please note that there is a simple non invasive mode to satisfy this  
> requirement: just add at the beginning of the document a note saying  
> that whenever simple entailment is mentioned, we could actually use  
> also RDF, RDFS, OWL-DL entailemnts.

Please suggest wording for such a note.

Regardless of what the note says, in the version of SPARQL
that we're standardizing, the answer to this query is False, right?

Input data s:

 :c1 rdfs:subClassOf :c2.
 :c2 rdfs:subClassOf :c3.

Query:

 ASK { :c1 rdfs:subClassOf :c3 }.

Answer:

 False.


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