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zazuko / rdf-validate-shacl

Validate RDF data purely in JavaScript. An implementation of the W3C SHACL specification on top of the RDFJS stack.
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Superfluous validation error when target node doesn't exist in data graph #66

Closed ivan-kovatchev closed 2 years ago

ivan-kovatchev commented 3 years ago

What's the issue?

A violation is raised when a node that doesn't exist in the data graph is used as an object of sh:targetNode.

What's expected?

I expected the validation report to conform, as the target node doesn't exist in the data graph. This is based off this part of the SHACL spec:

RDF terms produced by targets are not required to exist as nodes in the data graph.

Playground example

In my first example id:c exists as a node in the data graph, while in the second one id:d doesn't.