On Fri, Nov 10, 2023 at 5:51 PM Andy Seaborne <a...@apache.org> wrote:
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> On 10/11/2023 12:33, Marco Neumann wrote:
> > Should DELETE {URI URI * } not update all matching graph patterns?
>
> No.
> (and that's bad syntax)
>
DELETE {<URI> <URI> ?x } is bad syntax?
> > I had a case where only DELETE {URI URI NODE } did execute the update in
> > the dataset/graph/query fuseki UI.
> >
> > To be precise it is a DELETE INSERT combination with an empty WHERE
> clause.
> >
> > DELETE {pattern} INSERT{pattern} WHERE{ }
>
> the "pattern" is used as a template.
> DELETE {template} INSERT {template} WHERE {pattern}
>
> If the template has variables, these variables must be set by the WHERE
> clause. Otherwise triple patterns with unbound variables are skipped.
>
> There is no pattern matching in a template.
>
> There is a short form DELETE WHERE { pattern } which is
> DELETE { pattern } WHERE {pattern}, using the pattern as the template.
>
> Andy
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> >
> > Marco
> >
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Marco Neumann
