Re: [TF-PP] Minor comments on the current document

On 24 Nov 2009, at 12:31, Ivan Herman wrote:

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> Alexandre Passant wrote:
>> Hi,
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>> I think I missed the original announcement regarding the availability of the document in SVN, but here are some late and minor comments about it.
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>> - Shouldn't it generally use the term "inverse" instead of "reverse" ? Seems more coherent with the current terminology 
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> +1
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>> - In the first table, I'd suggest, "Name of people one "foaf:knows" step away" rather that 'one "knows" steps away'
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>> - Last example of 4.1: must we read
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>>  ?x foaf:knows/^foaf:knows ?x .  (i.e. foaf:knows followed by an inverse foaf:knows)
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>> instead of 
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>>  ?x foaf:knows^foaf:knows ?x .  
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> the table at the beginning of section 2 includes a row:
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> elt1 ^ elt2 	Shorthand for elt1 / ^elt2, that is elt1 followed by
> 		reverse elt2.
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> Ie, this looks like a shorthand. That being said, I must admit I was
> also misled by the example and I begin to question whether having such a
> shorthand is wise/useful...

Thanks, I missed that one.
Yet, I find it a bit confusing.

Alex.


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> Ivan
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>> ?
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>> - Should we also mention that PP does not provide new features to SPARQL per se, but a simpler way to write query involving paths.
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>> Best,
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>> Alex.
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>> National University of Ireland, Galway
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