[Mulgara-dev] Questions about the string-pool.

[Andrae Muys]

I've been thinking about the XA2 StringPool implementation.

6 primitive operations and 1 optimised compound operation

Insert mapping
Delete mapping
Localize
Globalize
Interval (by values)
Interval (by type)
+
Localize||Insert (inserts if lookup fails)

My questions:

Does it make any sense to perform interval/value operations for  
anything except Typed-Literals?
Does it make any sense to perform heterogeneous interval/value  
operations?
Does it make any sense to perform heterogeneous interval/type  
operations?

As far as I can tell the answers are

No.
No.
Not between RDF-Node types (but it does make sense to request all  
Literals - untyped, typed, and language-coded).

Comments?

Andrae

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Andrae Muys
andrae at netymon.com
Principal Mulgara Consultant
Netymon Pty Ltd