Re: Template language for SPARQL?

David,

See
http://blog.swirrl.com/articles/new-publishmydata-feature-named-queries

Paul

On 01 Jun 2012, at 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?
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> David Booth, Ph.D.
> http://dbooth.org/
> 
> Opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily
> reflect those of his employer.
> 
> 


Kind Regards,
Paul Hermans

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