diff -r 99cdb9608cc1 -r 84d4587a92bc doc/book/en/annexes/rql/intro.rst --- a/doc/book/en/annexes/rql/intro.rst Thu Apr 08 17:47:52 2010 +0200 +++ b/doc/book/en/annexes/rql/intro.rst Thu Apr 08 17:50:37 2010 +0200 @@ -5,10 +5,10 @@ Goals of RQL ~~~~~~~~~~~~ -The goal is to have a language emphasizing the way of browsing relations. As -such, attributes will be regarded as cases of special relations (in terms of -implementation, the user should see no difference between an attribute and a -relation). +The goal is to have a language making relations browsing easy. As +such, attributes will be regarded as cases of special relations (in +terms of usage, the user should see no syntactic difference between an +attribute and a relation). Comparison with existing languages ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -32,10 +32,10 @@ We should look in more detail, but here are already some ideas for the moment ... Versa_ is the language most similar to what we wanted to do, but the model -underlying data being RDF, there is some number of things such as namespaces or +underlying data being RDF, there are some things such as namespaces or handling of the RDF types which does not interest us. On the functionality level, Versa_ is very comprehensive including through many functions of -conversion and basic types manipulation, which may need to be guided at one time +conversion and basic types manipulation, which we may want to look at one time or another. Finally, the syntax is a little esoteric.