Assume a SPARQL query is to be executed against the Virtuoso DBpedia SPARQL endpoint (http://dbpedia.org/sparql ) to retrieve the decimal longitude of the "NJ Devils' hometown" with cardinal direction, which determines whether the decimal is positive (in the case of East) or negative (in the case of West).

Virtuoso supports SPARQL-BI, an extended SPARQL 1.0 implementation from before SPARQL 1.1 was ratified, thus the "IF" operator is not currently supported, but an equivalent bif:either built-in SQL function does exist enabling an equivalent query to be executed:

PREFIX rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#>
PREFIX dbo: <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/>
PREFIX dbp: <http://dbpedia.org/property/>
SELECT ?team ( (bif:either( ?ew = 'W', -1, 1)) * (?d + (((?m * 60) + ?s) / 3600.0)) as ?v)
  {
    ?team a dbo:HockeyTeam . ?team rdfs:label 'New Jersey Devils'@en .
    ?team dbp:city ?cityname . ?city rdfs:label ?cityname .
    ?city dbp:longd ?d; dbp:longm ?m; dbp:longs ?s; dbp:longew ?ew .
  }

Figure1.6.SPARQL IF operator for SPARQL-BI endpoint

	See Also:
	Supported SPARQL-BI "define" pragmas SPARQL-BI ???