SPARQL RDF Query Language Reference

• SPARQL RDF Query Language Reference V1.8 (A4, PDF) (US Letter, PDF), 2006-02-09
  Changes: Updates for SPARQL Query Language 23 November 2005 Working Draft
  Use the term IRIs in preference to URIs.
  Add isIRI and prefer isBlank bicaps.
  Show examples of negative decimal integers
  Update for change to give xsd:decimal for 2.34 style
  Added US letter version [now that I've moved to the USA!]

Older versions

• SPARQL RDF Query Language Reference V1.7 (A4, PDF), 2005-07-26
  Changes: Updates for SPARQL Query Language 21 July 2005 Working Draft
  Blank Nodes are allowed in any part of a Triple Pattern and act as anonymous variables that cannot be selected (Section 3)
  Add ()s to FILTER example (Section 3)
  FROM is now repeatable (Section 4)
  Show where FILTER is used (Section 4)
  ORDER BY must be before LIMIT and OFFSET (Sections 4,9)
  Title changed to Query Results Ordering and Modifying (Section 6)
  ORDER BY can also take expressions and extension functions (Section 6)
  Added use of an extension function in ORDER BY (Section 6)
  ORDER BY DESC and ASC now take ()s (Sections 6, 9)
  Encourage isURI not ISURI style (Section 7)
  The arguments of REGEX are expressions not literals (Section 7)
  Added REGEX pattern syntax note, it is from XQuery 1.0 / XPath 2.0, XML Schema and similar to a Perl subset. Added list of flags. (Section 7)
  Add () expression (Section 7)
  Added two FROMs to example (Section 9)
• SPARQL RDF Query Language Reference V1.6 (A4, PDF), 2005-05-16
  Changes: Added qname example (Section 1)
  Noted XSD namespace is for datatypes (Section 2)
  Corrected bad syntax SORT BY (Section 4)
  Added LIMIT and ORDER BY to example query (Section 9)
• SPARQL RDF Query Language Reference V1.5 (A4, PDF), 2005-04-21
  Changes: Corrected to be ASK WHERE {} (Sections 4, 5)
  Added xsd:boolean as a supported datatype (Section 7)
  Fixed example query to match query structure order (Section 9)
• SPARQL RDF Query Language Reference V1.4 (A4, PDF), 2005-04-21
  Changes: Fixed inccorect query structure order (Section 4)
• SPARQL RDF Query Language Reference V1.3 (A4, PDF), 2005-04-20

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Dave Beckett