Re: XML format for SPARQL queries?

It is definitely possible to transform SPIN as RDF/XML using XSLT (2.0). We
have done that to implement faceted search. So the XML processing chain
applies to SPIN without problems.

On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 9:52 PM, McCauley, Steven <steven_mccauley@brown.edu
> wrote:

> Martynas- nothing! I wasn't suggesting there was anything wrong with SPIN,
> just that I don't think it's what I'm looking for. As the abstract says (
> http://spinrdf.org/sp.html ), SPIN "goes beyond the textual format." I
> want to head in the opposite direction: a serialization of a SPARQL query
> that is document-oriented; ie, XML.
>
> Olivier- thanks for the link. I'm not surprised that I'm the first person
> to suggest this, but I do think it's an interesting omission. Given that a
> query can be submitted to a SPARQL endpoint as a document, the Web
> standards enthusiast in me wants to use an XML format to do so.
>
> An XML format for SPARQL queries would create a nice symmetry with replies
> in RDF/XML and SPARQL Query Results XML formats. It would permit an XML
> end-to-end processing chain, using the same tools to generate queries and
> to process the results from those queries. Many thanks for the advice; if I
> make any headway on my own, I'll post to the list. (Mapping SPIN into XML
> seems like a good way to start.)
>
> Best-
> Steve
>
> On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 11:58 AM, Martynas Jusevičius <
> martynas@atomgraph.com> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>>
>>
>>
>