JibberJim: Seems to need a lot of text processing to get to usable triples
timbl: "Our work has demonstrated that SQL and XQuery queries can vary dramatically in complexity based on the specifics of how data is distributed among tables and documents. A query that might require a half-dozen lines of SQL code for one database design might require scores of lines if the database were designed differently. The same variability applies to XQuery expressions as the distribution of data among XML documents
timbl: " Because typical questions asked of RDF involve several, sometimes many, join operations, SPARQL provides a more compact notation [than SQL] that is perhaps easier to get right with less debugging time spent"
timbl: " Because typical questions asked of RDF involve several, sometimes many, join operations, SPARQL provides a more compact notation [than SQL] that is perhaps easier to get right with less debugging time spent"