good evening;

> On 2017-05-12, at 21:55, [email protected] wrote:
> 
> Suppose your dataset contains:
> 
> :me :hasEmail "[email protected]" .
> :you :hasEmail "[email protected]" .
> 
> The query:
> 
> SELECT ?s ?p ?o WHERE {?o :hasName :s }
> 
> is completely valid and will return perfectly fine results in a non-triple 
> format, like SPARQL XML. Those results are not triples. In order to _know_ 
> that they are not triples and that only certain result formats may therefore 
> be used, the SPARQL impl would have to inspect every result row, _before 
> beginning to return even the first_.
> 

this argument does not convince : cf. 
https://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-sparql11-query-20130321/#construct

best regards, from berlin,

> ---
> A. Soroka
> 
> Laura Morales wrote on 5/12/17 3:50 PM:
>>> For that to happen, the implementation in question would have to be able to 
>>> infer that the SELECT statement in question was sure to produce _only_ 
>>> legitimate
>>> triples. In other words, not only that the form was a simple 3-tuple, but 
>>> that neither the first nor second positions would ever contain literals and 
>>> that the
>>> second position would never contain bnodes. That's not impossible, but it 
>>> would be extremely difficult.
>>> 
>>> Remember, an RDF triple is _not_ just a 3-tuple. It is specifically a tuple 
>>> of IRI-or-bnode, IRI, IRI-or-bnode-or-literal. [1]
>> 
>> 
>> I also don't understand why this would be necessary. Mainly because, as far 
>> as I can see, triples are already validated before inserting them into the 
>> dataset (for example when using tdbloader). Are all triples checked for 
>> correctness before outputting any of XML/JSON/CSV/TSV? If they do, it would 
>> seem very strange to me.
>> 



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