Re: [SMW-devel] SPARQL Ask (was: Re: Query syntax poll)

2008-06-10 Thread Markus Krötzsch
On Montag, 9. Juni 2008, Sergey Chernyshev wrote: > Actually, since this discussion turned to general query language > functionality, I want to voice another question I had some time ago - why > not to go standards way with complex cases? In two words, let's leave #ask > language for simple cases a

Re: [SMW-devel] SPARQL Ask (was: Re: Query syntax poll)

2008-06-10 Thread Sergey Chernyshev
OK, looks like you convinced me - main points I got from it is that ASK is query language with less flexibility, but with some inferencing capabilities and still fast. Making alternative SPARQL / reasoner / formatter implementation is much bigger task then I expected. OK, then let's concentrate o

[SMW-devel] Predefined/Saved queries

2008-06-10 Thread Sergey Chernyshev
I'm starting to use Ask queries for RSS and iCal support on the site and one of the issues I'm having is huge URLs that get generated when queries are significantly large. These URLs can't really be imported into RSS readers or iCal tools (Outlook, Google Calendar) which defeats the purpose. My cu