- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 07:49:56 -0500
- To: andy.seaborne@hp.com
- Cc: www-archive@w3.org, Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>, Eric Prud'hommeaux <eric@w3.org>
On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 11:43 +0100, Seaborne, Andy wrote: > Dan, > > Thanks for spending the time on this - your comments are very helpful. Sure thing... Just replying to one part, for now... [...] > >>Definition: Query Solution > >> > >>A Query Solution is a Pattern Solution for the Query Pattern. A > >>substitution in a query solution only contains variables mentioned in > >>the query. > >> > > > > suggest: > > > > Given a Query Pattern, a Query Solution is one of its Pattern Solutions > > whose substitutions only contains variables mentioned in the Query > > Pattern. > > I don't see the need for a restriction to only contain variables mentioned in > the query. Is there a technical reason for this? I don't know. I thought that's what the "only contains..." phrasing was trying to say, and I just tried to clarify it. > Allowing other variables/values in a solution does no harm as far as I can see > and allows for later extension to nested queries. > > I have to change the Query Results from saying plain "all" because of variable > inference capabilities. -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/ D3C2 887B 0F92 6005 C541 0875 0F91 96DE 6E52 C29E see you at XTech in Amsterdam 24-27 May?
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