Re: ((TODO)) Re: [DotGNU]GNU.RDF update 29-3-2003

[James Michael DuPont]

Peter,
Is there a place where I can find the docs or code that you have so
far? I would like to compare them in detail to the existing rdf query
languages.

mike

--- Peter Minten <address@hidden> wrote:
> Peter Minten wrote:
> > 
> > Hi folks,
> > 
> > on the agenda of GNU.RDF this week:
> > * Getting GNU.RDF.QL designed.
> > * Getting the API designed.
> > 
> > I will take care of GNU.RDF.QL .
> 
> Some new stuff. First of all a correction. 
> 
> INSERT http://dotgnu.org/people/PeterMinten as contact:person 
> PROPERTIES (contact:fullName, contact:mailbox)
> PROPERTYTYPES (*, xsd:string)
> VALUES ("Peter Minten", "mailto:address@hidden";);
> 
> Should be:
> 
> INSERT (contact:fullName, contact:mailbox)
> INTO http://dotgnu.org/people/PeterMinten
> PROPERTYTYPES (*, xsd:string)
> VALUES ("Peter Minten", "mailto:address@hidden";);
> 
> Which is much closer to SQL, and looks a lot better. Note that if *
> in
> PROPERTYTYPES is given the system tries to resolve the datatype based
> on
> ontology information if present.
> 
> The INSERT operation is now reserved for adding resource properties,
> it does not
> create resources (well actually it can be used to create resources,
> but there is
> a better way to do that). It's possible to create resources with the
> CREATE
> RESOURCE operation (kinda like CREATE TABLE in SQL):
> 
> CREATE RESOURCE http://dotgnu.org/people/PeterMinten
> TYPE contact:person
> LABEL "Peter Minten";
> 
> This creates a number of triples containing the usual resource
> overhead like
> type and label. This method is actually just an INSERT operation in
> disquise,
> but it's a lot clearer.
> 


=====
James Michael DuPont
http://introspector.sourceforge.net/

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