- From: Simon Raboczi <raboczi@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 03:20:49 +1000
- To: public-rdf-dawg-comments@w3.org
- Cc: ogbujic@ccf.org
Chimezie Ogbuji wrote on 2007-04-04: > SPARQL currently does not provide an unambiguous way to specify a > dataset which corresponds to all the known named graphs. The only way > this can be done is to leave out FROM <..> and FROM NAMED <..> > directives in the prolog (and from the protocol, for SPARQL services). > The corresponding dataset in this case depends on the host application - > not very consistent. Firstly, thank you for your comments [1] suggesting how SPARQL could be improved by adding a "FROM NAMED *" syntax. It was discussed at the 2007-04-10 teleconference [2], but the working group is very conservative about adding features at this Last Call stage and decided to err on the side of caution and not add this feature at this time. Note however that the working group does has two postponed issues: service description [3] and cascaded queries [4]. It was suggested during the meeting that these two facilities in combination may allow a future version of SPARQL to query the endpoint's own service description to determine its known named graphs, which could then be used as the dataset for a subsequent query. I hope this message addresses your comments to your satisfaction. If it does, please let us know by replying to this message to say so. If you change the subject line to include [CLOSED] it will help the scripts used for tracking comments. [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-dawg-comments/ 2007Apr/0001.html [2] http://www.w3.org/2007/04/10-dawg-minutes.html [3] http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/DataAccess/issues#serviceDescription [4] http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/DataAccess/issues#cascadedQueries -- Simon Raboczi
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