Re: blank nodes search

Richard Newman wrote:
> No.

... officially ... :-)

> 
> You have to search by reference, or use some implementation-specific
> technique.
> 
> On Jul 29, 2008, at 12:17, saraujo@inf.puc-rio.br wrote:
> 
>> Hi everbody, Is It possible search for a blank node with sparql?
>> Ex:
>>
>> select distinct ?p ?o where {_:node13aj7sbgpx251 ?p ?o .}
>>
>> Regards
>> Samur Araujo
>>
> 

Direct acces to a Blank node (accessing the graph at a more syntactic 
level e.g. editors and RDF lists) came up a couple of times during the 
WG discussions and several things emerged:

1/ Several systems "allow" <_:label> to access a blanknode by label.

2/ Externally, you might associate ?bnode with _:node13aj7sbgpx251 (sort 
of named parameters to a query)

select distinct ?p ?o where {?bnode ?p ?o .}

3/ List access can be done in a manner like rdfs:member although the 
property name is not standard hence different in different systems.

These are defintitely in the "implementation-specific technique" category.

	Andy

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