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.. _merging_graphs:
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Merging graphs
==============
A merge of a set of RDF graphs is defined as follows. If the graphs in
the set have no blank nodes in common, then the union of the graphs is
a merge; if they do share blank nodes, then it is the union of a set
of graphs that is obtained by replacing the graphs in the set by
equivalent graphs that share no blank nodes. This is often described
by saying that the blank nodes have been 'standardized apart'. It is
easy to see that any two merges are equivalent, so we will refer to
the merge, following the convention on equivalent graphs. Using the
convention on equivalent graphs and identity, any graph in the
original set is considered to be a subgraph of the merge.
One does not, in general, obtain the merge of a set of graphs by
concatenating their corresponding N-Triples documents and constructing
the graph described by the merged document. If some of the documents
use the same node identifiers, the merged document will describe a
graph in which some of the blank nodes have been 'accidentally'
identified. To merge N-Triples documents it is necessary to check if
the same nodeID is used in two or more documents, and to replace it
with a distinct nodeID in each of them, before merging the
documents. Similar cautions apply to merging graphs described by
RDF/XML documents which contain nodeIDs
*(copied directly from http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-mt/#graphdefs)*
In RDFLib, blank nodes are given unique IDs when parsing, so graph merging can be done by simply reading several files into the same graph::
from rdflib import Graph
graph = Graph()
graph.parse(input1)
graph.parse(input2)
``graph`` now contains the merged graph of ``input1`` and ``input2``.
.. note:: However, the set-theoretic graph operations in RDFLib are assumed to be performed in sub-graphs of some larger data-base (for instance, in the context of a :class:`~rdflib.graph.ConjunctiveGraph`) and assume shared blank node IDs, and therefore do NOT do *correct* merging, i.e.::
from rdflib import Graph
g1 = Graph()
g1.parse(input1)
g2 = Graph()
g2.parse(input2)
graph = g1 + g2
May cause unwanted collisions of blank-nodes in
``graph``.
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