Re: Question on blank nodes

On Jun 29, 2010, at 5:12 PM, Paul Gearon wrote:

> I've been trying to find the conversation we've had on the scope of
> blank nodes in a delete, but so far I haven't found it.
> 
> What happens for the following query:
> 
>  DELETE { ?s :p _:b } WHERE { ?s :p _:b }
> 
> Is the _:b treated as the same node in the template as it is in the pattern?

Relatedly, I'd wonder if this is exactly equivalent to:

DELETE WHERE { ?s :p _:b }

or if the semantics are slightly different. I can't figure out based on the text in the latest working draft of Update whether these two should act the same.

.greg

Received on Tuesday, 29 June 2010 21:40:25 UTC