Re: construct starting to feel like a separate interface

Dan Connolly wrote:
> I'm working on sparcli.py , playing with various
> services out there; one of the options is...
> 
>     elif '--sparqlette' in sys.argv:
>         BG='data'
>         svcAddr =
> 'http://www.wasab.dk/morten/2005/04/sparqlette/?format=xml&'
> 
> i.e. I'm trying to look at the SPARQL interface as something
> that doesn't have a format= param, but sparqlette has
> a format param, so I'm trying to "hide" it in the service
> address.
> 
> That works for SELECT and ASK, but not for CONSTRUCT.
> 
> I'm starting to wonder if ?query=... should be
> separated into ?select=... and ?construct=... or
> something.

FWIW we have a separation like that in Sesame's java API and HTTP 
interface. See 
http://www.openrdf.org/doc/users/ch08.html#section-comm-http-table-queries 
  and
http://www.openrdf.org/doc/users/ch08.html#section-comm-http-graph-queries.

Jeen
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