- From: Steve Harris <steve.harris@garlik.com>
- Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 10:45:01 +0000
- To: Gregory Williams <greg@evilfunhouse.com>
- Cc: SPARQL Working Group WG <public-rdf-dawg@w3.org>
On 28 Feb 2010, at 04:25, Gregory Williams wrote: > I've drafted a response to Nicholas Humfrey's question regarding the > service description vocabulary and possible support for describing > result formats. However, I'm not sure I've characterized the > argument appropriately. > > Original email: > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-dawg-comments/2010Feb/0016.html > > Draft response: > http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/wiki/CommentResponse:NH-1 > > I'm not sure something like the discussed saddle:resultFormat > property is appropriate in the SD doc for the same reasons that I've > pushed back on other features that reach outside of the SPARQL > specs. My previous email regarding the 1.1 Protocol draft touches on > this, but can anyone tell me if a conformant protocol implementation > has to support the SPARQL XML Results format and RDF/XML? I thought > these were the only formats the protocol discusses explicitly, but I > see the protocol document uses text/turtle in the single example of > a CONSTRUCT query, and (as detailed in my previous email) I'm not at > all sure after re-reading the protocol document if RDF/XML is > actually required. > > Given these issues, what do people think about supporting a term > like saddle:resultFormat? If there is a range of formats that a > conformant protocol implementation can support, should the service > description enumerate the supported formats? Also, does RDFa change > anything here as the (only?) other standard serialization format > (you could imagine an implementation emitting CONSTRUCT results as > RDFa)? I think there's an argument for it. As has been noted it's not really necessary for machines, but may help humans, so no strong feelings. - Steve -- Steve Harris, Garlik Limited 2 Sheen Road, Richmond, TW9 1AE, UK +44 20 8973 2465 http://www.garlik.com/ Registered in England and Wales 535 7233 VAT # 849 0517 11 Registered office: Thames House, Portsmouth Road, Esher, Surrey, KT10 9AD
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