RE: comment on /2001/11/13-RDF-Query-Rules/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext Nick Gibbins [mailto:nmg@ecs.soton.ac.uk]
> Sent: 20 March, 2003 13:21
> To: www-rdf-rules@w3.org
> Subject: RE: comment on /2001/11/13-RDF-Query-Rules/ 
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> Patrick Stickler <Patrick.Stickler@nokia.com> writes:
> 
> > BTW, here's yet another RDF Query language. Open source tools
> > forthcoming shortly... (see attachments for details)
> 
> > The benefits (IMO) are that it's all RDF, both query and results,
> > and the same results provide both for applications wanting
> > statements as well as those wanting bindings.
> 
> Nice - this sort of RDF query by example is quite close to the
> strawman RDF-query-in-RDF syntax that we've been discussing here in
> Southampton (I'll try and post a summary in the next few days).
> 
> How do you deal with queries that return several sets of bindings?

There is no concept of "sets of bindings", only bindings. If multiple
resources match a given node in the query, then all those resources
have a binding statement asserted for them, with the same variable.

A query

   <rdfq:Query rdfq:variable="property">
      <rdf:type rdf:resource="&rdf;#Property"/>
   </rdfq:Query>

would match all Property resources and the results would
bind the variable "property" to all returned property
resources.

Do you see a problem with not supporting a concept of "sets"
of bindings?

Cheers,

Patrick

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Patrick Stickler, Nokia/Finland, (+358 40) 801 9690, patrick.stickler@nokia.com

Received on Thursday, 20 March 2003 06:36:17 UTC