- From: Joshua Tauberer <jt@occams.info>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 08:12:32 -0400
- To: Richard Newman <r.newman@reading.ac.uk>
- CC: carmen <_@whats-your.name>, semantic-web@w3.org
Richard Newman wrote:
>> I've always wondered why SPARQL or other RDF queries were not
>> represented in RDF.....
>
> ... because RDF isn't particularly human-writable, syntax helps a lot of
> people when they're writing, and SPARQL wouldn't benefit a great deal
> from extensibility*.
Okay, and I agree that having an easy-to-write syntax (and even an
SQL-ish syntax) is important, but given that N3 has variables and
formulas, your example query "SELECT * { ?x a ?y } " could easily have
been written:
?x a ?y.
Or at least:
:query a sparql:Query ;
sparql:hasBGP { ?x a ? y }.
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