Using Results of Construct Queries
A query language provides a way to ask a question. The question is posed to a system that processes the query and replies with an answer. That answer can come in many forms—a Yes or No (ASK), a table (SELECT), or, as we just saw, a set of triples (CONSTRUCT). It is reasonable to wonder, where does this information go? For a Yes/No answer or a table, one can easily imagine a user interface like a web page that displays that information in some form. But one could also imagine integrating the information into another application—putting a table into Excel or injecting it into a database.
In some sense, it isn’t the job of the query language to specify this. The query language just provides a formalism to describe ...
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