- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 12:42:59 -0600
- To: jos.deroo@agfa.com
- Cc: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, "Eric Prud'hommeaux" <eric@w3.org>, www-archive@w3.org
> >> Pat, I didn't mean to ban poison like :isBnode or :isBound >>> just indeed keep it in bottle of inference engine (and >>> express such syntactic operations using Python, Java,..) >>> I have seen no motivating example that we should speak >>> and listen to them in something else than sets of RDF triples >> >> Well, I can't point to any use examples, but it seems reasonable that >> someone might want to apply a syntactic filter to their query answers >> (like, I only want to see answers which have all URIrefs in them, >> say) No? > >Well ok, but I'm not really motivated by that example :) It felt a bit pathetic as I was writing it, I have to say. >Anyhow, we do many such jobs to prepare and extract triples >from almost everything (even books written in PDF recently) >and also to consume them, to put them in SVG on pocket PC >etc, but for such jobs we simply use XSLT (and of course >Python, Java, ...) Hmm, point taken. Well, then maybe what SPARQL should do is to explicitly allow XSLT constructions as part of query, to describe syntactic filters (? Does that make sense? Im a little out of my depth here.) Pat >-- >Jos De Roo, AGFA http://www.agfa.com/w3c/jdroo/ -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32502 (850)291 0667 cell phayes@ihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
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