Chris Murphy wrote:
> That's true - hadn't thought about it in that light. Luckily, the RDF
> toolkit I'm using supports returning bindings by column number and not
> just binding name. I fear that leaving it an open question could cause
> some implementation issues, but I may be paranoid.
I had never thought about that, but since you mentioned it, it might
indeed be a source of problems. Ryan, Chris, what do you think?
> Also - didn't mean to criticize the manual in the first one, just
> pointing out an omission. I hope that after implementing the current
> spec, we'll be able to find some areas in the specification *and* the
> manual that we can help to improve.
All contributions are welcome (I did not want to make it sound like I
was taking your remark as criticism).
> There are about 6 people working on
> some projects over here at Olin that are related to RDF at the moment,
> all of which would benefit from having a fresnel-like language to
> represent the data with.
Can you tell us more about your current implementation effort?
best,
Emmanuel
> Thanks!
> Chris
>
> On 2/19/06, Emmanuel Pietriga <emmanuel.pietriga_at_inria.fr
> <mailto:emmanuel.pietriga_at_inria.fr>> wrote:
> > Chris Murphy wrote:
> > > So, I'm particularly partial to SPARQL Selectors, which happen to not
> > > really be documented in the fresnel manual. I got to where I'm trying
> > > to implement them, and realized that there isn't really a description
> > > of how to do it in the manual.
> > >
> > > A typical SPARQL query would be something like:
> > >
> > > SELECT ?node
> > > WHERE {
> > > some constraints;
> > > }
> > >
> > > The problem is that I don't know what the exact syntax is that I
> > > should be expecting from the user. What can I assume they will name
> > > the search results? ?node, ?foo, ?somethingrandom ?
> > >
> > > - chris
> >
> > Hello Chris,
> >
> > Remember that the manual is still a work in progress, but you are right,
> > it is lacking information about SPARQL selectors, mostly because we
> > have focused on basic selectors and FSL selectors until now.
> >
> > We could agree on a default name, but is that absolutely necessary,
> > considering that we constrain the SELECT part to be "?x", whatever x is?
> > (I'm just catching up on two weeks worth of e-mail, so I may be missing
> > something).
> >
> >
> > --
> > Emmanuel Pietriga
> > INRIA Futurs - Projet In Situ tel : +33 1 69 15 34 66
> > Bat 490, Université Paris-Sud fax : +33 1 69 15 65 86
> > 91405 ORSAY Cedex FRANCE http://www.lri.fr/~pietriga
> >
> >
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Emmanuel Pietriga
INRIA Futurs - Projet In Situ tel : +33 1 69 15 34 66
Bat 490, Université Paris-Sud fax : +33 1 69 15 65 86
91405 ORSAY Cedex FRANCE http://www.lri.fr/~pietriga
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