MarkLogic Server 11.0 Product Documentation

sem.describe

sem.describe(
   iris as sem.iri[]
) as Sequence

Summary

This function implements the Concise Bounded Description (CBD) specification to describe one or more nodes in the graph. This implementation does not provide any reified statements, and will return a maximum of 9,999 triples.

Example

const sem = require("/MarkLogic/semantics.xqy");
sem.describe(sem.iri("urn:isbn:9780080540160"));
	
=>
   sem.triple(sem.iri("urn:isbn:9780080540160"),
	sem.iri("http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/title"),
	"Query XML,
XQuery, XPath, and SQL/XML in context")