Re: Template language for SPARQL?

Not quite what you want, but in python RDFLib you can pass in bindings 
for variables to the query execution mechanism, for example:

graph.query('SELECT ?s WHERE { ?s a ?class } .' ,
 initBindings={ 'class': RDFS.Class } )

Would bind ?class to always be RDFS.Class.

I seem to remember I convinved Jena to do something similar, but I 
forget how.

- Gunnar



On 01/06/12 03:45, David Booth wrote:
> [Resending, as my previous message never showed up.]
>
> I would like to be able to write something like this:
>
>    SELECT ?s
>    WHERE { ?s a ${CLASS} . }
>
> and have ${CLASS} substituted in from an environment variable or other
> parameter, but SPARQL does not currently provide anything like this, and
> it's clearly beyond what the working group could put in SPARQL 1.1.
> So I'm wondering . . .
>
> What have others been using as a template language for SPARQL?
>
> I know TopQuadrant uses an RDF representation for SPARQL CONSTRUCT
> queries in conjunction with SPIN,
> http://www.w3.org/Submission/2011/02/
> but it shreds the SPARQL query into tiny RDF pieces, which is rather
> unfriendly for a human to read.  It would be much nicer to have
> something like the above.
>
> How are others handling the need to parameterize their SPARQL queries
> like this?
>
>
>

Received on Friday, 1 June 2012 14:33:37 UTC