Re: Using CONSTRUCT to add language tag?

• From: Lee Feigenbaum <lee@thefigtrees.net>
• Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 18:40:58 -0400
• To: Bob DuCharme <bob@snee.com>
• CC: public-sparql-dev@w3.org
• Message-ID: <4BF9AEFA.4030805@thefigtrees.net>

In SPARQL 1.1 you'll be able to do this with a subquery, though it's not 
as succinct:

  PREFIX anrecs: <http://www.snee.com/ns/analystRatings#>
  PREFIX fn: <http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions#>
  CONSTRUCT {
    ?company anrecs:company ?coNameWithLanguageTag .
  }
  WHERE {
    {
      SELECT (fn:concat(?coName,"@en") AS ?coNameWithLanguageTag) WHERE {
        ?company anrecs:company ?coName .
    }
  }

(fn:concat is not currently defined by SPARQL -- I expect a 
concatenation function like this will be defined and (as in this 
example) imported from XPath.)

Lee

On 5/23/2010 6:11 PM, Bob DuCharme wrote:
> Does anyone have any suggestions about how a SPARQL CONSTRUCT query
> might add language tags without using extensions? The query below works
> with ARQ, but it uses the Jena extension LET and the concat() function:
>
> PREFIX anrecs: <http://www.snee.com/ns/analystRatings#>
> PREFIX fn: <http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions#>
> CONSTRUCT {
> ?company anrecs:company ?coNameWithLanguageTag .
> }
> WHERE {
> ?company anrecs:company ?coName .
> LET (?coNameWithLanguageTag := fn:concat(?coName,"@en")) .
> }
>
> thanks,
>
> Bob
>
>

Received on Sunday, 23 May 2010 22:41:34 UTC