- From: Lee Feigenbaum <lee@thefigtrees.net>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 08:56:30 -0400
- To: nathan@webr3.org
- CC: Andy Seaborne <andy.seaborne@epimorphics.com>, public-rdf-wg@w3.org, Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
On 7/30/2012 7:41 AM, Nathan wrote: > >> This WG has been trying to move Turtle and SPARQL closer together. >> >> One is a syntactic transformation (Turtle), the other is part of the >> mechanism for pattern matching, so they need explaining differently. >> SPARQL ^ is much more general. >> >> And hence, >> >> SPARQL Update does not support ^:p in INSERT DATA >> >> because it's not a matching operation. > > Yes, because Turtle is a syntax, and SPARQL is a query language (as > you well know), that deviation is already there, the two are different > specs for different purposes, however can and do share some syntax. > For example: Do we have TURTLE Update? or Turtle ?s, or Turtle SELECT? > or Turtle ASK? No because it's not a querying language, and it doesn't > require a matching operation. > INSERT DATA is inserting data by specifying it with a syntax. It's not doing any querying. Lee > Best, > > Nathan > >
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