Re: SPARQL 1.1: created values in CONSTRUCT?

On 2010-10-01, at 18:28, Ivan Shmakov wrote:

> 	Section 14.1.2 of the SPARQL 1.1 Query Language specification
> 	[1] describes a way to introduce values not already present in
> 	the graphs being queried.  E. g.:
> 
> …
> SELECT ( fn:concat(?G, " ", ?S) AS ?name )
> …
> 
> 	Section 14.2 describes the CONSTRUCT query, which can be used to
> 	create a new graph based on one or more existing ones and a
> 	template.
> 
> 	It makes me wonder, is there a way to introduce new values in
> 	the CONSTRUCTed graph?

Yes, You can use that projected value in your construct, using a sub query:

CONSTRUCT { [] :name ?name }
WHERE {
   { SELECT ( fn:concat(?G, " ", ?S) AS ?name ) ... }
}

- Steve

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