%META:TOPICPARENT{name="VOSIndex"}% ---+ Guide to using SPARQL inside XSLT This guide demonstrates how Virtuoso allows SPARQL queries to be embedded into an XSLT style sheet, and executed against a remote SPARQL endpoint (here, we use the [[http://lod.openlinksw.com/sparql/][LOD Cloud Cache]]) to retrieve data for use in HTML output. ---++Implementation * The key component of this feature is the <xsl:for-each-row> control element. This element has one attribute, named either "sparql" or "sql"; the value of the attribute is an XPath expression that returns the text of the query to executed, e.g., * The XPath expression can be a plain string constant, but because the query can be quite long, it is usually more convenient to store the text in a variable and refer to that variable. * The SPARQL query may contain parameters (written in the form ?:name). A parameter of this sort will get its value from the XSLT variable $name. (If there is any nesting or recursion, the value(s) will come from the innermost variables.) * The query execution in turn creates new XSLT variables that exist inside the body of <xsl:for-each-row>. Each result column of a query becomes one XSLT variable. * The body of <xsl:for-each-row> is instantiated once for each row of the query result set, with new values for the variables in each instantiation. ---++Example 1 Execute from iSQL: SQL> xslt_sheet ('local://friends.xsl', xtree_doc (' SELECT DISTINCT ?maxlinkg ?fnick ?ffullname ?ffname ?flname ?fimg WHERE { SERVICE (DEFINE lang:dialect 65535) { { SELECT DISTINCT ?maxlinkg ?fg ?fnick ?ffullname ?ffname (bif:__max_notnull (?flname1, ?flname2)) AS ?flname ?fimg WHERE { { SELECT (MAX(?linkg)) AS ?maxlinkg ?f WHERE { { SELECT DISTINCT ?k WHERE { GRAPH ?kg { { ?k foaf:firstName ?:fname ; foaf:familyName ?:lname } UNION { ?k foaf:firstName ?:fname ; foaf:family_name ?:lname } UNION { ?k foaf:name ?:fullname } } } } GRAPH ?linkg { ?k foaf:knows ?f } } } GRAPH ?fg { ?f a . OPTIONAL { ?f foaf:firstName ?ffname } OPTIONAL { ?f foaf:nickname ?fnick } OPTIONAL { ?f foaf:name ?ffullname } OPTIONAL { ?f foaf:familyName ?flname1 } OPTIONAL { ?f foaf:family_name ?flname2 } OPTIONAL { ?f foaf:img ?fimg } } FILTER ( bound ( ?ffullname ) || ( bound ( ?ffname ) && ( bound ( ?flname1 ) || bound ( ?flname2 ) ) ) ) } ORDER BY ?fullname ?ffname } } } ]]> Simple demo for SPARQL inside XSLT

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