RE: [Sparql4j-devel] 1st draft of use cases, requirements and design committed to cvs

[Seaborne, A. <and...@hp...>]

-------- Original Message --------
> From: Janne Saarela <mailto:jan...@pr...>
> Date: 11 November 2005 11:13
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> > You're right - email would be best for discussion of the document.
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> Let me switch to email from the word doc for a while.
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> 1. I would now agree that let's not override the existing semantics of
> the execute() method i.e. let's manage boolean return values via
> ResultSet with 1 single row.

Aside: that seems to be the approach of MS SQLServer for XML results - a
one row,one column result set with the XML in it.

> 2. In order to make work proceed step-by-step, should we define the
> development via milestones where M1 would include boolean results as
> well as result sets but not graphs.

Fine - a quite minimal M0 to get the whole project process sorted out
may be a good idea. =20

> M2, once planned later, would then
> include graphs, too. We have some use cases for their eventual
inclusion
> but in order to validate sparql protocol practical aspects we could
> target M1 first.
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> Your remark on the timezone was a good one - what I don't know (yet)
is
> whether the javax.xml.datatypes could be returned from getTimestamp()
> methods (i.e. do these types inherit any of the java basic data types)
> or if we need a method signature?

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