Anupriya, On 4 Jan 2008, at 23:47, Anupriya Ankolekar wrote: > I've been trying to use the SPARQL endpoint at > http://dbpedia.org/sparql. The endpoint is just wonderful to work > with! Thanks so much for this work.
Thanks for the kind words. > I have a small question regarding > the formatting of the SPARQL query results. According to the > SPARQL Query Results XML Format specification, section 2.1 [1], the > results document should be a valid XML documents as follows: > > <?xml version="1.0"?> > <sparql xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/sparql-results#";> > ... > </sparql> > > However, the results I get from the endpoint omit the first line. Any > reason why? This first line (called the "XML declaration") is optional. As you know, SPARQL results are a kind of XML document, and the XML spec doesn't require this line [1]. > It's a minor issue, but it could break code that accesses > several different SPARQL endpoints, many of which do include that > line. It just did mine. :) Do you use an XML parser to read the results? I would be surprised if any XML parser choked on a missing XML declaration. Best, Richard [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-prolog-dtd > > > Thanks, > Anupriya > > > > > [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-XMLres/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Dbpedia-discussion mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Dbpedia-discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion
