- From: Steve Harris <steve@totl.net>
- Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 10:40:37 +0000
- To: Andy Seaborne <andy@apache.org>
- Cc: "public-sparql-dev@w3.org" <public-sparql-dev@w3.org>
> On 26 Mar 2015, at 10:38, Andy Seaborne <andy@apache.org> wrote: > > On 26/03/15 10:25, Steve Harris wrote: >> >>> On 26 Mar 2015, at 10:10, Andy Seaborne <andy@apache.org> wrote: >>> >>> On 24/03/15 16:48, Fabiano Luz wrote: >>>>> Hello Folks, >>>> On the predicate lists we have omitted the subject, for example: >>>> >>>> ?x foaf:name ?name ; >>>> foaf:mbox ?mbox . >>>> >>>> >>>> I wonder if there is some kind of "subject lists" where we omitted the >>>> predicate, for example: >>>> >>>> foaf:Bob foaf:phone ?phone1; foaf:John ?phone2 . >>>> >>>> >>>> PS: I do not want to repeat the predicate. >>>> >>>> best regards >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Fabiano Ferreira Luz® >>>> MsC in Computer Science >>> >>> Fabiano, >>> >>> There isn't any specific syntax to abbreviate in that way (in Turtle or SPARQL), only "same subject, same predicate", not "different subject, same predicate". >>> >>> What's you use case for this? >> >> I was wondering about this, what happens if you write: >> >> :foo ^rdf:value :a , :b , :c . > > :foo ^rdf:value :a . > :foo ^rdf:value :b . > :foo ^rdf:value :c . > > That might help or it might not (in SPARQL patterns, not Turtle, not in construct templates, not in update templates). Right, but the question was about SPARQL. > Is then ":a" a "subject"? > Yes - in a forward arc sense. > No - in the written form sense as described. Right, it depends whether the goal was compactness, or legibility. - Steve
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