<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><api:function-page xml:base="/apidoc/8.0/sem.describe.xml" generated="2015-10-07T16:36:00.016766-07:00" mode="javascript" xmlns:api="http://marklogic.com/rundmc/api"><api:function-name>sem.describe</api:function-name><api:suggest>sem.describe</api:suggest><api:suggest>sem</api:suggest><api:suggest>describe</api:suggest><api:function-link mode="xquery" fullname="sem:describe">/apidoc/8.0/sem:describe.xml</api:function-link><api:function mode="javascript" name="describe" lib="sem" category="Semantics" hidden="false" bucket="MarkLogic Built-In Functions" prefix="sem" namespace="http://marklogic.com/semantics" fullname="sem.describe"><api:summary>This function implements the Concise Bounded Description 
	(CBD) specification to describe one or more nodes in the graph.
	</api:summary><api:params><api:param name="iris" type="sem:iri*"><api:param-description>A set of IRIs representing 
		  graph nodes.
	  </api:param-description><api:param-name>iris</api:param-name><api:param-type>sem.iri[]</api:param-type></api:param></api:params><api:return>ValueIterator</api:return><api:example class="javascript"><pre xml:space="preserve" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
var sem = require("/MarkLogic/semantics.xqy");
sem.describe(sem.iri("urn:isbn:9780080540160"));
	
=&gt;
   sem.triple(sem.iri("urn:isbn:9780080540160"),
	sem.iri("http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/title"),
	"Query XML,&amp;#10;XQuery, XPath, and SQL/XML in context")
    </pre>
  </api:example></api:function></api:function-page>