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Goals and features
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- MathQL-1 is designed to achieve the following goals:
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+ MathQL-1 is designed to achieve the following goals:
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- - Exploitation of RDF technology
-to manage metadata and compliance with the main requirements for an
-RDF query language. In particular:
+ - Exploitation of RDF technology
+ to manage metadata and compliance with the main requirements for an
+ RDF query language. In particular:
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- - MathQL-1 provides facilities for hierarchical constraints based
-on RDF Schema and for traversal
-of compound values of properties.
+ - MathQL-1 provides facilities for hierarchical constraints
+ based on RDF Schema and for
+ traversal of compound values of properties.
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- - MathQL-1 provides a full set of Boolean operators to compose
-the query constraints and facilities for selecting URI's or literals by means
-of regular expressions.
+ - MathQL-1 provides a full set of Boolean operators to compose
+ the query constraints and facilities for selecting URI's or literals by means
+ of regular expressions.
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- - MathQL-1 allows to customize the query results specifying what
-part of a solution should be preserved or discarded.
+ - MathQL-1 allows to customize the query results specifying
+ what part of a solution should be preserved or discarded.
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- - MathQL-1 has a well-conceived semantics defined in term of
-an abstract metadata model, imposes that queries return exhaustive solutions
-and includes a "select-from-where"-like construction.
+ - MathQL-1 has a well-conceived semantics defined in term
+of an abstract metadata model, imposes that queries return exhaustive solutions
+ and includes a "select-from-where"-like construction.
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- - MathQL-1 supports a machine-processable XML syntax as well as a human-readable
-textual syntax to achieve the best usability.
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+ - MathQL-1 supports a machine-processable XML syntax as well as a human-readable
+ textual syntax to achieve the best usability.
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- - Careful treatment of query results that are as important
-as the queries themselves. In particular:
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+ - Careful treatment of query results that are as important
+ as the queries themselves. In particular:
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- - MathQL-1 query results have a 4-dimensional geometry whereas
-other languages assume that query results are returned in 1-dimensional structures
-(ie lists of resources) or 2-dimensional structures (ie relational database
-tables). This allows to get better outcomes from queries returning structured
-results.
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+ - MathQL-1 query results have a 4-dimensional geometry whereas
+ other languages assume that query results are returned in 1-dimensional structures
+ (i.e. lists of resources) or 2-dimensional structures (i.e. relational database
+ tables). This allows to get better outcomes from queries returning structured
+ results.
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- - Besides the syntax for queries, MathQL-1 provides a syntax
-for query results with its own rigorously defined semantics.
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+ - Besides the syntax for queries, MathQL-1 provides a syntax
+ for query results with its own rigorously defined semantics.
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- - Exploitation of constructions borrowed from programming languages
-to allow sophisticated queries that need computation over the queried data.
-In particular:
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+ - Exploitation of constructions borrowed from programming
+languages to allow sophisticated queries that need computation over the
+queried data. In particular:
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- - MathQL-1 supports variables for storing intermediate query
-results, provides iterators over these results, has a conditional operator
-and includes logging facilities for debugging purposes.
+ - MathQL-1 supports variables for storing intermediate query
+ results, provides iterators over these results, has a conditional operator
+ and includes logging facilities for debugging purposes.
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