Hello Kjetil,
> DESCRIBE ?resource WHERE {
> { ?resource dct:title ?free1 . ?free1 bif:contains "Da*" .
> }
> UNION
> { ?resource dct:subject ?var .
> ?var skos:prefLabel ?free2 .
> ?free2 bif:contains "Da*" .
> }
> }
>
> will work?
Yes, of course, because each of bif:contains has appropriate triple
pattern in front of it.
>
> > > I was wondering if I
> > > could somehow exclude the sub:literals predicate from the DESCRIBE
> > > result?
> >
> > It's a problem of SPARQL spec. There's no syntax for configuration
> > options
>
> It seems to me that a solution to this problem would be to allow matching
> graphs that are not part of the result set, e.g.
>
> DESCRIBE ?foo FROM </foo> WHERE GRAPH </bar> { ?foo dct:title "Foo" . } or
> something like that...
Unfortunately, this trick will not work when graphs are not known in
advance, because it is impossible to specify "from everything except
</bar>". Otherwise it's OK.
Best Regards,
Ivan Mikhailov
OpenLink Software
http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com
