Hi Erich, > There doesn't seem to be anyway to create a SPARQL construct statement like > the following: >
I believe that the reasoning is that CONSTRUCT makes a _set_ of triples and sets don't have an order. I.e., a triple-store is an unordered collection and that it what CONSTRUCT constructs :-). > but I did not get anything that would work or seem remotely efficient. If > this is the case, why have order by in a construct statement at all if one > cannot capture this information as triples? The ORDER clause in your example is essentially a no-op. Obviously, however, it would be important if you also had a LIMIT. HTH, -- Gary Warren King, metabang.com Cell: (413) 559 8738 Fax: (206) 338-4052 gwkkwg on Skype * garethsan on AIM * gwking on twitter
