shapes-ISSUE-29 (formalism): Formalism for definition of high-level language [SHACL Spec]

shapes-ISSUE-29 (formalism): Formalism for definition of high-level language [SHACL Spec]

http://www.w3.org/2014/data-shapes/track/issues/29

Raised by: Richard Cyganiak
On product: SHACL Spec

A formalism must be picked for defining each of the constructs of the high-level language, as prose is considered insufficient.

Proposals include:

- An abstract syntax plus prose
- An axiomatic semantics
- SPARQL, and dealing with nested high-level expressions by building up a query string to be evaluated at once
- SPARQL, and dealing with nested high-level expressions by evaluting each part individually and combining the results outside of SPARQL
- …

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