Querying the Web of data with XSPARQL 1.1

Abstract

On the Web and in corporate environments there exists a lot of data in various formats. XQuery and XSLT serve as query and transformation languages for XML. But as RDF also becomes a mainstream format for Web of data, transformations languages between these formats are required. XSPARQL is a hybrid language that provides an integration framework for XML, RDF, but also JSON and relational data by partially combining several languages such as XQuery, SPARQL and SQL. In this paper, we present the latest open source release of the XSPARQL engine, which is based on standard software components (Jena and Saxon) and outline possible applications of XSPARQL 1.1 to address Web data integration use cases.