Hi Chimezie,

good point - I had observed this problem in the past as well. I will  
add such an option to a future release.

Holger


On Mar 31, 2009, at 2:53 PM, Chimezie Ogbuji wrote:

>
> Hello Scott.
>
> Sounds good.  That works, Thanks! One comment though:
>
> I noticed the query that gets sent to the endpoint still includes the
> FROM statement.  For some services this might be problematic since
> they may have a 'default' behavior (like the one I was targetting)
> that actually tries to fetch the representation of an RDF graph from
> that URI to use as the default graph for the query rather than ignore
> a FROM IRI that points to itself.  Luckily, I'm the author of the
> SPARQL service I was testing this against, so I was just able to make
> the appropriate change :)
>
> However, it might be best to have the option of where to send the
> query be a function of the application and not embedded in the query
>
> -- Chimezie
>
> On Mar 27, 2:12 pm, Scott Henninger <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> Chimezie;  The best way to do this is through the SPARQL syntax
>> itself.  For example:
>>
>> SELECT ?child
>> FROM <http://dbpedia.org/sparql>
>> WHERE
>> {  <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Rose_Fitzgerald_Kennedy>
>>     <http://dbpedia.org/property/children>
>>     ?child
>>
>> }
>>
>> ...wherehttp://dbpedia.org/sparqlis the sparql endpoint.
>>
>> -- Scott
>>
>> On Mar 27, 12:40 pm, Chimezie Ogbuji <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello, excellent work with TopBraid.
>>
>>> I have a basic question on the SPARQL support.  I have a live SPARQL
>>> server with an endpoint that implements the SPARQL query protocol  
>>> and
>>> would like to (if possible) use TopBraid to compose SPARQL queries
>>> using the OWL associated with the RDF dataset served by the endpoint
>>> (for autocompletion, etc..) and dispatch them against the endpoint
>>> (i.e., not one of the database connections supported, but a *pure*
>>> SPARL server).
>>
>>> It is not clear how this is done.  I tried Import->SPARQL Endpoint
>>> Connection and it asks for 3 things:
>>
>>> 1) file name (i'm guessing it is the file where the connection
>>> information is stored)
>>> 2) Base URI for imports (I'm not sure if this is the base uri for  
>>> the
>>> OWL used to drive composition of SPARQL and if so, why the normal  
>>> base
>>> URI mechanisms don't already cover this: URL of the OWL document,
>>> xml:base in content, etc..)
>>> 3) Endpoint URL
>>
>>> However, having done that , I'm not sure how to proceed with  
>>> composing
>>> SPARQL queries to evaluate the defined SPARQL endpoint connection.
>>
>>> Thanks
> >


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