- From: Andy Seaborne <andy@apache.org>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 12:40:33 +0100
- To: public-sparql-dev@w3.org
There are bugs in the SPARQL specification with regards to EXISTS. The RDF Data Shapes working group uses EXISTS, and other related mechanisms, in SHACL [1]. W3C process for corrections is recognized generally to be inflexible. It is normally to wait for the next WG to run and end which is a multiyear cycle - that does not fit with the RDF Data Shapes WG timescale. Community Groups can publish reports. These are not W3C standards. They do provide a way to record consensus or enumerate alternatives. This could be used to supplement the SPARQL errata process [2]. A suggestion is to use the W3C Community Group mechanism to describe a solution to this specific area in a timely manner. The CG would document a solution and create tests to pass over to the "RDF Tests" CG [3]. If there is no single consensus on one solution within the SPARQL community, including implementers and users, we can at least document a small set of approaches and note the approaches taken by implementations. Thoughts and comments? Please indicate if you would join such an effort. Andy [1] http://w3c.github.io/data-shapes/shacl/ [2] https://www.w3.org/2013/sparql-errata [3] https://www.w3.org/community/rdf-tests/
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