- From: Steve Harris <steve.harris@garlik.com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 20:40:01 +0000
- To: Paul Gearon <gearon@ieee.org>
- Cc: Andy Seaborne <andy.seaborne@talis.com>, public-rdf-dawg@w3.org
On 9 Nov 2009, at 20:29, Paul Gearon wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Andy Seaborne
> <andy.seaborne@talis.com> wrote:
>> On template/pattern .... "bnodes".
>
> That reminds me...
>
> Are we expecting the statement:
>
> DELETE WHERE { :foo :bar _:b1 }
>
> to be the equivalent of:
>
> DELETE { :foo :bar ?b } WHERE { :foo :bar ?b FILTER isBlank(?b) }
>
>
> If not, then will _:b1 bind to a single blank node or all of them? Can
> it bind to non-blank nodes? Is this question too hard, and we should
> disallow blank nodes in DELETE templates?
It should follow the same rules as CONSTRUCT as far as possible, for
reasons of sanity preservation. However, it's not so obvious what that
means in this case.
CONSTRUCT mints "new" bNodes when you give it [] or _:b. Isn't it an
error to mention bNodes with the same label in the CONSTRUCT and WHERE
clauses? That makes things a little tricky.
Maybe the shorthand notation should ban bNodes? :(
- Steve
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