- From: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 16:37:29 -0400
- To: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
- Cc: Phil Archer <parcher@icra.org>, semantic-web@w3.org, WCL-XG Public List <public-xg-wcl@w3.org>
> > > http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-rdf-sparql-query-20060220/#SparqlOps
> >
> > I don't see anything like startsWith. Am I missing it?
>
> Looking again, I guess you have to drop down to use the regex
> functionality...
>
> > > Will some of these also be exposed in the RIF language?
> >
> > Sorry, I'm not sure what SPARQL has. If it's suitable, I suspect RIF
> > will adopt it.
>
> Would regex be suitable?
> http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-query/#funcex-regex
Good question. I'm sure it will be a fascinating debate when we try to
make that decision. :-) I wouldn't care to guess when RIF with regex's
might be widely deployed.
-- Sandro
Received on Monday, 8 May 2006 20:37:45 UTC