Thanks Rob, that explains it.

Martynas

On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Rob Vesse <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Martynas
>
> I think for this case you can't use the short form of DELETE, instead you
> should be able to do the following with the long form (and this passes the
> Update Validator fine):
>
> PREFIX a: <http://a>
>
> DELETE
> {
>  ?s a:p1 ?o1 .
>  ?s a:p2 ?o2 .
> }
> WHERE
> {
>  ?s a:p1 ?o1 .
>  OPTIONAL { ?s a:p2 ?o2 . }
> }
>
> The patterns in the construct part of the DELETE (or an INSERT for that
> matter) work the same way as in a CONSTRUCT, if there aren't the variable
> bound to create a specific triple that will be ignored.  I.e. for solutions
> which have nothing bound for ?o2 the ?s a:p2 ?o2 triple will just not be
> created but the ?s a:p1 ?o1 triple still gets created.
>
> HTH,
>
> Rob
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
>> Behalf Of Martynas Jusevicius
>> Sent: 26 August 2011 20:19
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: [jena-dev] OPTIONAL in DELETE
>>
>> Hey,
>>
>> I can't wrap my head around a DELETE query that would delete OPTIONAL
>> values.
>> I can specify them in the WHERE pattern, but how should the DELETE
>> template should look like?
>>
>> Say ?o2 is an optional value which needs to be deleted as well - I
>> thought this is how the query should look like:
>>
>> PREFIX a: <http://a>
>>
>> DELETE
>> WHERE
>> {
>>   ?s a:p1 ?o1
>>   OPTIONAL { ?s a:p2 ?o2 }
>> }
>>
>> But what I get from http://sparql.org/update-validator is:
>> Encountered " "optional" "OPTIONAL "" at line 7, column 3.
>>
>> What's wrong? Am I getting the syntax wrong?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Martynas
>>
>>
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