Re: how should undefined elements figure in aggregate samples?

The aggregate handle errors based on the nature of each aggregates:

e.g.
http://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-query/#defn_aggCount
"remove error elements from N"

so count(?x) is the number of defined ?x in the group, count(*) the 
number of rows, count(if(?x = 99),1,0)) the number of times 99 occurs.

Sum(?x) does not remove error or indeed non-numbers:
so sum(1+2+undef) is undef as is sum(1+"oops")

Sum(coalesce(?x,0)) on {1, 2, undef} is 3.
Sum(coalesce(?x+0,0)) on {1, 2, "oops"} is 3.

There is no canonical result for sample().

	Andy

On 31/03/15 01:54, james anderson wrote:
> good evening,
>
> should the sparql aggregation mechanism exclude unbound elements from
> the aggregation set?
> must it?
> may it?
>
> in order for a query to correlate elements from sparse graphs, it seems
> that the unbound elements should be excluded.
> still, i wonder what the recommendation intended.
> there appears to be no directly relevant test in the w3c suite and while
> the language in the recommendation permits the more useful result, it
> leaves open the consequences, should the respective value set include
> undef markers only.
>
> to be specific, is there a canonical result for the following query?
>
> select ?o
>          (sample(?s) as ?sSample)
>          (count(?s) as ?sCount)
> (sample(?p) as ?pSample)
> (count(?p) as ?pCount)
> (sum(?v) as ?vSum)
> where {
>   values (?s ?p ?o ?v)
>   { (<http://example.org/s1> undef <http://example.org/o1> undef)
>     (<http://example.org/s2> undef <http://example.org/o1> 1)
>     (<http://example.org/s3> undef <http://example.org/o1> undef)
>     (<http://example.org/s4> <http://example.org/p4>
> <http://example.org/o1> 1)
>     (<http://example.org/s5> undef <http://example.org/o2> undef)
>     (<http://example.org/s6> undef <http://example.org/o2> 1)
>     (<http://example.org/s7> <http://example.org/p6>
> <http://example.org/o3> 1)
>     (<http://example.org/s8> undef <http://example.org/o3> 1)
>   }
> } group by ?o
>
>
>
> best regards, from berlin,
> ---
> james anderson | james@dydra.com <mailto:james@dydra.com> | http://dydra.com
>
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