Add SHACL path to RDFLib Path utility and corresponding tests by mgberg · Pull Request #2699 · RDFLib/rdflib (original) (raw)

Summary of changes

This adds a utility to parse valid SHACL Paths (e.g. the objects of triples with predicate sh:path) into an RDFLib-friendly object. The resulting object could either be:

• A URIRef, when the path is simply a predicate
• A Path, when the path is complex (e.g. [sh:inversePath skos:broader])

This enables easy evaluation and manipulation of SHACL paths using RDFLib. For example:

• The output can be passed to any of several methods (Graph.triples, Graph.value, etc.) as a predicate to get value(s) at that path
• The n3 method can be used to get a SPARQL property path representation of the path

Note that pyshacl does not have a utility to do this- rather, it only evaluates SHACL paths.

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