16.2.2.Query Constructs

Starting from Version 5.0, Virtuoso supports filtering RDF objects triples by a given predicate.

Examples

The boolean functions bif:contains, bif:xcontains, bif:xpath_contains and bif:xquery_contains can be used for objects that come from Linked Data Views as well as for regular "physical" triples. Each of these functions takes two arguments and returns a boolean value. The first argument is a local variable which should also be used as an object field in the group pattern where the filter condition is placed.

In order to execute the examples below please run these commands:

SQL>SPARQL CLEAR GRAPH <http://MyTest.com>;
DB.DBA.RDF_QUAD_URI_L ('http://MyTest.com', 'sxml1', 'p_all1', xtree_doc ('<Hello>world</Hello>'));
DB.DBA.RDF_QUAD_URI_L ('http://MyTest.com', 'sxml2', 'p_all2', xtree_doc ('<Hello2>world</Hello2>'));
DB.DBA.RDF_QUAD_URI_L ('http://MyTest.com', 'nonxml1', 'p_all3', 'Hello world');
VT_INC_INDEX_DB_DBA_RDF_OBJ();
DB.DBA.RDF_OBJ_FT_RULE_ADD ('http://MyTest.com', null, 'My test RDF Data');

bif:contains

SQL>SPARQL
SELECT *
FROM <http://MyTest.com>
WHERE { ?s ?p ?o . ?o bif:contains "world" };

s             p         o
VARCHAR       VARCHAR   VARCHAR
_______________________________________________________________________________

sxml1         p_all1    <Hello>world</Hello>
nonxml1       p_all3    Hello world
sxml2         p_all2    <Hello2>world</Hello2>

3 Rows. -- 20 msec.

bif:xcontains

SQL>SPARQL
SELECT *
FROM <http://MyTest.com>
WHERE { ?s ?p ?o . ?o bif:xcontains "//Hello[text-contains (., 'world')]" };
s                  p          o
VARCHAR            VARCHAR    VARCHAR
_______________________________________________________________________________

sxml1              p_all      <Hello>world</Hello>

1 Rows. -- 10 msec.

bif:xpath_contains

SQL>SPARQL
SELECT *
FROM <http://MyTest.com>
WHERE { ?s ?p ?o . ?o bif:xpath_contains "//*" };

s             p         o
VARCHAR       VARCHAR   VARCHAR
_______________________________________________________________________________

sxml1         p_all1    <Hello>world</Hello>
sxml2         p_all2    <Hello2>world</Hello2>

2 Rows. -- 20 msec.

bif:xquery_contains

SQL>SPARQL
SELECT *
FROM <http://MyTest.com>
WHERE { ?s ?p ?o . ?o bif:xquery_contains "//Hello2 , world" };

s             p         o
VARCHAR       VARCHAR   VARCHAR
_______________________________________________________________________________

sxml2         p_all2    <Hello2>world</Hello2>

1 Rows. -- 20 msec.