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+ Goals and features
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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
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+ - MathQL-1 provides facilities for hierarchical constraints
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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
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+ - 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
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+ - MathQL-1 supports a machine-processable XML syntax as well as a human-readable
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+ - Careful treatment of query results that are as important
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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
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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
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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.
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