Re: Status of the SPARQL algebra

On 20 Nov 2006, at 17:01, Seaborne, Andy wrote:

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> Kendall Clark wrote:
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> > Comments:
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> > 1. Numbering the sections and subsections will make it easier to
> > refer to (yes, I know this makes moving it into rq24 a matter of  
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> > duplication...)
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> Worse than that - they keep changing!  I reordered most of the doc  
> today.
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>>> 4/ Advice on how to typeset squiggly symbols in portable XHTML,
>> FWIW, on F'fox 2.0 on Mac, this looks fine.
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> Unfortunately, I have only included what I found to be absolutely  
> safe (Greek characters).  There are more Unicode characters I'd  
> like to use but not all browsers display things correctly.   FF is  
> better than IE (6 and 7) but is hardly complete (why this isn't an  
> OS font issue, I don't know).  But there are more symbols again  
> that would be good that aren't even in Unicode.

Are you thinking of using the join symbols from relational algebra? I  
think it's better as it is, but you could use the ASCII renderings:  
"[X]" and "=X]".

Rho and sigma must be present in unicode. Though, again, I think it's  
clearer to write it out.

- Steve

Received on Monday, 20 November 2006 17:28:32 UTC