Re: SPARQL Update Editorial issue/ SPARQL Grammar suggestion in the context of Update (LOAD INTO iri vs. LOAD INTO GRAPH iri)

I generally think that having "WHERE" optional in the query language is 
a little silly, so would not be in favor of adding new optional keywords 
in the same way...

Lee

On 7/5/2012 9:18 AM, Polleres, Axel wrote:
> Thanks Andy,
>
> Fair points... Any other opinions? I wouldn't want to risk another LC for update and, in case we see implementations to allow skipping "GRAPH" later on, a future WG could still standardize that without Backwards compatibility problems, right?
>
> So, I'll just do the editorial fix in
> http://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-update/#mappingRequestsToOperations
>
> Best,
> Axel
>
>
>
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>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Andy Seaborne [mailto:andy.seaborne@epimorphics.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, 5 July 2012 3:07 PM
>> To: public-rdf-dawg@w3.org
>> Subject: Re: SPARQL Update Editorial issue/ SPARQL Grammar
>> suggestion in the context of Update (LOAD INTO iri vs. LOAD
>> INTO GRAPH iri)
>>
>> As a change it seems OK but it's rather late in the cycle.
>> Can we legitimately reply to comments making suggestions
>> saying "sorry - it's late" if we ourselves are fine tuning
>> things.  It's not broken.
>>
>> This would require a new LC for Update, in my opinion,
>> because implementations would be changed.
>>
>>>>    Update:
>>>>      mark the GRAPH keyword optional in Section 3.1.4 LOAD,
>>>> 3.1.5 CLEAR, 3.2.1 CREATE, 3.2.2 DROP
>> and it is a material change to the update doc itself (I don't
>> think the grammar being in query means that we can use that
>> when update-only language syntax is changed).
>>
>> And inline ...
>>
>> On 05/07/12 11:01, Polleres, Axel wrote:
>>> Sorry, missed something here:
>>>
>>>> The implied changes would be:
>>>>
>>>>    Query:
>>>>
>>>       only the suggested grammar change (since GraphRef is
>> only used by Update-relevant
>>>       grammar productions and thus doesn't otherwise affect
>> the query document, as far as I can see)
>>>       [...]
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Axel
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Polleres, Axel
>>>> Sent: Thursday, 5 July 2012 11:52 AM
>>>> To: public-rdf-dawg@w3.org
>>>> Subject: SPARQL Update Editorial issue/ SPARQL Grammar
>> suggestion in
>>>> the context of Update (LOAD INTO iri vs. LOAD INTO GRAPH iri)
>>>>
>>>> A student of mine just pointed me to a small thing which I
>> wanted to
>>>> ask your opinions on:
>>>> For  DROP, CLEAR, CREATE, and LOAD  the GRAPH keyword is
>> obligatory,
>>>> i.e. you have to write:
>>>>     DROP GRAPH iri
>>>>     LOAD INTO GRAPH iri
>>>> ...
>>>> but can't simply write
>>>>     DROP iri
>>>>     LOAD INTO iri
>>>>
>>>> The student realized this, since we have some example in
>>>> http://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-update/#mappingRequestsToOperati
>>>> ons in Table 1 where we forgot the GRAPH keyword...
>> Editorial - fix it regardless, - in any case, theyshould use
>> the full forms for clarity.
>>
>>>> Couldn't we make 'GRAPH' optional here, just as 'WHERE' is
>> optional
>>>> in WhereClause, i.e. change the GraphRef production
>>>>
>>>> s/
>>>>    [46]  GraphRef  ::=  'GRAPH' iri
>>>> /
>>>>    [46]  GraphRef  ::=  'GRAPH'? iri
>>>> /
>>>>
>>>> This would seem to be a minor, but handy change and still
>> possible as
>>>> long as we are still before LC publication for the grammar
>> along with
>>>> the Query document: I think making the GRAPH keyword OPTIONAL here
>>>> would still be a minor enough change for Update to call it
>>>> "editorial", since it doesn't invalidate anything from the LC
>>>> version.
>>>>
>>>> The implied changes would be:
>>>>
>>>>    Query:
>>>>
>>>>    Update:
>>>>      mark the GRAPH keyword optional in Section 3.1.4 LOAD,
>>>> 3.1.5 CLEAR, 3.2.1 CREATE, 3.2.2 DROP
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Please note that the GRAPH keyword is already optional in
>> ADD, MOVE,
>>>> COPY, cf.
>>>>
>>>>      [45]  GraphOrDefault  ::=  'DEFAULT' | 'GRAPH'? Iri
>>>>
>>>> So, I think this minor change would make the Update language more
>>>> coherent, or would there be any problems with it?
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> Axel
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Dr. Axel Polleres
>>>> Siemens AG Österreich
>>>> Corporate Technology Central Eastern Europe Research &
>> Technologies
>>>> CT T CEE
>>>>
>>>> Tel.: +43 (0) 51707-36983
>>>> Mobile: +43 (0) 664 88550859
>>>> Fax: +43 (0) 51707-56682 mailto:axel.polleres@siemens.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>
>

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