Re: Action 369 -- Look at property path tests

It seems strange to me to get any results with an empty dataset. I don't agree that terms from the query should be included in nodes(G). From my understanding, { ?x ?p "o" } will not match if "o" does not appear in the dataset, so I don't think { ?x :p{0} "o" } should match.

- Matt

On 1/25/2011 11:16 AM, Gregory Williams wrote:
> On Jan 25, 2011, at 9:41 AM, Matthew Perry wrote:
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>> I have reviewed the property path tests. We need tests for {m,n}, {,n}, ? and () for precedence, and I think we need more tests for combinations of property path constructs.
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>> I have disagreements with some of the answers given in the current tests.
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>> 1) pp15 -- I don't see why we are returning results on an empty dataset.
> pp15 returns results because zero-length property paths bind the path endpoints to any subjects or objects in the graph *and* any bound term explicitly in the query. So in pp15, ?X :p{0} "o" will bind ?X="o". Likewise for ?Y and ?Z. This is part of the evaluation semantics for ZeroLengthPath (http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/docs/query-1.1/rq25.xml#sparqlAlgebraEval), though maybe it could be made clearer in the description of property paths in section 9 (from the evaluation semantics, I take "graph node" in section 9 to include terms not necessarily in the dataset but that are present in the query).
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