Mark Diggory wrote:
> Most vendors appear to be implementing their own as extensions.   
> There is "ORDER_BY" in SPARQL.   Threads I've read suggest its no so  
> clean a mapping what a MIN or MAX URI might be, while COUNT should be  
> fairly straight forward.
>
> On a side note, I tracked allot of the development of XPath/XSLT and  
> in that realm, extensions played a heavy part in the evolution of  
> what functions or aggregates were most popular in the language. XSLT  
> 1.1 had the EXSLT project (http://www.exslt.org/) defining extensions  
> like this. Then XSLT 2.0 absorbed them into the standard.
>
> I think it wise of you to use whatever is most efficient directly on  
> Sesame this time.
>   
I see. It seems that the OpenLinks folks have already created such an 
extension to SPARQL
    http://docs.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/rdfsparqlaggregate.html
So there's hope :-)

David

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