Re: Why not adopt ShEx? (was Re: Enough already)

Sorry, but I see zero advantages of ShEx over SPIN/SPARQL.

Why would I want to lock my software into a new non-standard syntax with
close to none adoption, when I can simply use the query engine to validate
constraints?

On Sun, 11 Dec 2016 at 18.26, Gray, Alasdair J G <A.J.G.Gray@hw.ac.uk>
wrote:

>
> On 10 Dec 2016, at 11:52, Martynas Jusevičius <martynas@graphity.org>
> wrote:
>
> In case of SHACL specifically, I think the problem is that while SPIN was
> an elegant concept on top of SPARQL, shoehorning constraints into a
> vocabulary is a model mismatch, a little like putting an ORM on top of
> RDBMS: it works most of the time, but there will always be corner cases you
> cannot hammer out.
>
>
> If this is indeed the case, why is the group not building upon the purpose
> defined ShEx approach?
>
> Its concise notation makes it very elegant for defining constraints. I
> have been using it in a tool for almost two years now. The tool is quick
> and easy to adapt to new sets of constraints by specifying a new ShEx
> schema.
>
> I also find its use of exclusive or more naturally fits the requirements I
> have encountered for constraint specifications.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Alasdair
>
> Alasdair J G Gray
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