----- Original Message ----
> From: Kjetil Kjernsmo <kjetil.kjern...@computas.com>
> To: virtuoso-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Sent: Monday, 16 February, 2009 6:01:17 PM
> Subject: Re: [Virtuoso-users] constructing URI's from literals
>
> On Monday 16 February 2009 06:23:59 Peter Ansell wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is there anyway with SPARQL and Virtuoso to create a URI in a result when
> > it is stored as a literal in the triplestore?
>
> I don't know if Virtuoso has something, but looking at
> http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-query/#FunctionMapping
>
> it appears that you cannot cast from string to URI, only from URI to string.
I was hoping that wasn't the only case and that there was a virtuoso extension
to allow people to do the reverse if it is reasonable. The resulting URI would
only be used in the output, ie, not in a further graph match, so it doesn't
sound technically unfeasible from a naive viewpoint.
Cheers,
Peter
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