Re: [an aside on JavaScript] Re: shapes-ISSUE-60 (Other Extension Languages): Shall SHACL support other extension languages beside SPARQL (like JavaScript)? [SHACL Spec] from Holger Knublauch on 2015-06-01 (public-data-shapes-wg@w3.org from June 2015)

From: Holger Knublauch <holger@topquadrant.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2015 09:32:09 +1000
To: public-data-shapes-wg@w3.org
Message-ID: <556CEB79.6090505@topquadrant.com>

On 6/1/2015 21:45, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote:
>
> JavaScript is powerful enough to express general functions, and thus can do
> some computations that SPARQL cannot. JavaScript does depend heavily on
> libraries that extend the capabilities of the core language. Any use of
> JavaScript as part of SHACL would almost certainly have to indicate which
> libraries are required.

Yes absolutely. That's why my previous example used a property called 
sh:jsLibrary. This may point to a URL or to an instance of sh:JSLibrary 
that manages multiple library files and their dependencies. Should be 
trivial to specify. See also http://spinrdf.org/spinx.html#javaScriptFile

Thanks,
Holger

Received on Monday, 1 June 2015 23:34:14 UTC