Mark, if you are using DESCRIBE or CONSTRUCT queries then the result you get is a Model. And a model is a set of statements which is not ordered. You can do post-processing to sort them the way you want, e.g. when you are presenting data to the user.
Martynas On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 2:29 PM, mark <ma...@metarelate.net> wrote: > Hello > > SPARQL and fuseki support results ordering using the 'order by' > statements. > > Fuseki implement the ordering of results for SELECT queries > in exactly the way I expect. > > However, if I put the same WHERE clause into a CONSTRUCT query > (output="text") the results I get back are not ordered in a way I expect > at all. > > The results appear to be consistently ordered for identical tdb content > but any change to the tdb appears to lead to changes in ordering of the > .ttl output. > > I do not see how this may be controlled or managed. I tripped over > this, it came as something of a surprise to me. > > Is there a way to control the ordering of output via CONSTRUCT so that > it is handled in the same way as for SELECT? > > This would be a very useful feature for me. > > many thanks > > mark
