in a node shape or in a property shape. However, when a property shape is a part of a node shape, its own targets are ignored.

SHACL uses rdfs:subClassOf statements to identify targets. A shape targeting members of a class, also targets members of all its subclasses. In other words, all SHACL definitions for a class are inherited by subclasses.

Validation

SHACL enables validation of graphs. A SHACL validation engine takes as input a graph to be validated (called data graph) and a graph containing SHACL

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