Vishal<br><br>Well explained! Thanks for that.<br><br>Michael<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/5/8 Vishal Talwar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vishal@metaweb.com">vishal@metaweb.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Ah, sorry, I didn't read the earlier emails carefully enough. The new query editor is smart enough to automatically prefix the duplicated keys (eg. in Kirrily's query, it's "ns0:name"). In the old query editor, you would actually see the duplicates disappear before your eyes after hitting the "Format" button. As the MQL reference guide explains:<br>
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"""<br>
Unfortunately, this query is not valid JSON: it includes the same property name twice, which means that cannot be parsed into object form. (To put this another way, you could not represent this query in a dictionary or hash data structure in a programming language like Python, Ruby or JavaScript.)<br>
""" <a href="http://mql.freebaseapps.com/ch03.html#id2952288" target="_blank">http://mql.freebaseapps.com/ch03.html#id2952288</a><br>
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So since keys must be unique, there has to be one winner. With MQL it seems that the last key wins and the query can thus be rewritten as:<br>
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{<br>
"id": null,<br>
"name": null,<br>
<div class="im"> "limit": 1,<br>
"type": "/people/person"<br>
}<br>
<br>
</div>Freebase simply returns the first person it finds, and it happens to be Jack Abramoff.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
Vishal<br>
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Vishal<br>
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Thanks but I'm quite aware of the error in the query. I only included it out of interest given the odd result it returns...<br>
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Michael<br>
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