Re: XML format for SPARQL queries?

What's wrong with SPIN?

On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 6:45 PM, McCauley, Steven <steven_mccauley@brown.edu
> wrote:

> Hello-
>
> I was wondering, is there an XML format for encoding SPARQL queries and
> update requests? That is, a format which serializes this:
>
> """
> SELECT ?s ?p ?o
> WHERE {
>   ?s ?p ?o .
> }
> """
>
> as this:
>
> """
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <query xmlns="http://fake.org/sparql-query#">
>   <clause type="select">
>     <binding name="s" />
>     <binding name="p" />
>     <binding name="o" />
>   </clause>
>   <clause type="where">
>     <triple>
>       <subject>s<subject>
>       <predicate>p</predicate>
>       <object>o</object>
>     </triple>
>   </clause>
> </query>
> """
>
> (or, you know, something else that could actually be processed)
>
> I ask because I know I can get my SPARQL results in XML (either
> sparql-results or rdf+xml), so it wouldn't surprise me if a format for
> SPARQL queries was also available. I've checked the mailing list archives,
> and the current list of W3C standards and drafts, but I'm not seeing
> anything like this. There's SPIN, but that seems to be moving in the
> opposite direction from what I'm looking for.
>
> Being able to serialize queries in XML would make them easier to log and
> rollback (for updates, that is). It would also permit the use of XML tools
> for generating SPARQL queries. Currently, I'm accomplishing this in my
> scripts with a lot of string concatenation and string formatting, but that
> seems flimsy and unreliable. I don't think it would be impossibly hard to
> write my own schema for a SPARQL Query document, but I also don't want to
> reinvent the wheel.
>
> Thank you-
> Steve McCauley
>