- From: Rob Vesse <rav08r@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 09:24:23 +0000
- To: Bob DuCharme <bob@snee.com>
- Cc: <public-sparql-dev@w3.org>
FROM NAMED specifies Graphs that are used in GRAPH clauses
e.g.
SELECT * FROM NAMED <http://example.org/myGraph> WHERE { ?s ?p ?o . GRAPH
?g { ?s ?x ?y }}
Would first find all triples from the default graph (which may in fact be
the union of several graphs) and then the GRAPH part would use Graphs
specified in FROM NAMED clauses to match additional triples. At least
broadly speaking that is how it should work. Actual implementations tend
to vary somewhat.
The difference should be that a FROM clause specifies a graph that forms
part of the default graph over which the query operates while the FROM
NAMED specifies Graphs used only in Graph clauses
Rob
On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 19:29:23 -0500, Bob DuCharme <bob@snee.com> wrote:
> I understand the various examples in the SPARQL spec that use FROM
> NAMED, but I still don't completely understand what the FROM NAMED part
> does, especially compared with FROM <http://some/uri>.
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-sparql11-query-20101014/#namedGraphs says
> "A query can supply IRIs for the named graphs in the RDF Dataset using
> the FROM NAMED clause." If they're named graphs, don't they already have
> IRIs as names? What is FROM NAMED adding here?
>
> thanks,
>
> Bob
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