Yes, all full text extensions go beyond the SPARQL standard and will be
implementation specific.

Currently there is little/no interoperability between implementations so
yes you limit portability of your queries if you use a text index

Rob

On 26/03/2014 14:56, "Olivier Rossel" <[email protected]> wrote:

>Sounds good.
>
>But we are getting into implementation-specific functions. True?
>(text:query is, I suppose, ARQ-specific).
>
>
>
>On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Andy Seaborne <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On 26/03/14 10:01, Olivier Rossel wrote:
>>
>>> Hello.
>>>
>>> I have a question about matching strings in SPARQL, whatever the lang
>>>tag.
>>> As far as I understand, the only way to do that is to let SPARQL bind a
>>>   ?variable
>>> and then FILTER for equality of its str() against my matching string
>>> value.
>>>
>>
>> In SPARQL 1.1, yes.
>>
>>
>>  For example:
>>>
>>> SELECT ?person ?name
>>>    WHERE
>>>    {
>>>    ?person foaf:name ?name .
>>>    FILTER (str(?name) = "Jackie Chan") .
>>>    }
>>>
>>> Is it really the only way?
>>> Won't it perform really bad?
>>> Especially compared to the case where you know the lang tag:
>>>
>>>
>>> SELECT ?person ?name
>>>    WHERE
>>>    {
>>>    ?person foaf:name "Jackie Chan"@en
>>>    }
>>>
>>>
>>
>> This is what a text index is good for.  Get some limited possibilities
>>and
>> test accurately in SPARQL:
>>
>> (hurrily...)
>>
>> ?x text:query ('Jackie Chan') .
>> ?x foaf:name ?name .
>>
>> FILTER (str(?name) = "Jackie Chan") .
>>
>>         Andy
>>
>>
>>




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