Re: Property Path usage query

Thanks Steve. I confirm that this answers my query.

nick.


On 13/08/2012 11:43, "Steve Harris" <steve.harris@garlik.com> wrote:

> Not a formal response, but I think that would require aggregates, e.g.:
> 
> SELECT (MIN(?name) AS ?sname)
> WHERE {
>   <http://example.com/bob> foaf:knows ?person .
>   ?person foaf:name ?name .
> }
> GROUP BY ?person
> 
> If you use PPs then you could write foaf:knows/foaf:name, but then you can't
> express the grouping, as there's an implicit variable in the path expression.
> 
> - Steve
> 
> On 2012-08-13, at 11:37, Nicholas Humfrey wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I have a question about what is possible using property paths:
>> 
>> Given this dataset:
>> <http://example.com/bob>    foaf:name  "Bob"  .
>> <http://example.com/joe>    foaf:name  "Joe"  .
>> <http://example.com/joe>    foaf:name  "Joe Bloggs"  .
>> <http://example.com/alice>  foaf:name  "Alice"  .
>> <http://example.com/bob>    foaf:knows  <http://example.com/joe>  .
>> <http://example.com/bob>    foaf:knows  <http://example.com/alice>  .
>> 
>> 
>> Is it possible to construct a Property Path query that returns a single name
>> for each of the people that Bob knows? ie "Joe", "Alice"
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> nick.


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