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Update modules/ROOT/pages/queries/expressions.adoc
Co-authored-by: Jens Pryce-Åklundh <[email protected]>
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Rules on string expressions for graph references when using identifiers (static graph references, administration commands) or a string (graph.byName function):
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* Unquoted dots are separators between a composite database and its constituent. For example, `composite.db1` represents the constituent composite.db1 in the composite database composite. To refer to a database with a dot in its name, quote the graph reference instead: `+`composite.db1`+`
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* Unquoted dots are separators between a composite database and its constituent.
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For example, `composite.db1` represents the constituent `composite.db1` in the composite database `composite`.
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To refer to a database with a dot (`.`) in its name, quote the graph reference instead: `++`composite.db1`++`.
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* When resolving a graph reference within a graph function, the string argument is parsed like a static graph reference.
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Thus, `USE graph.byName(<graph-reference>)` is typically equivalent to `USE <graph-reference>`.
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However, escaping rules for xref::syntax/naming.adoc#symbolic-names-escaping-rules[symbolic names] are applied to the argument.

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