Registration of media type application/sparql-query
Eric Prud'hommeaux
eric at w3.org
Thu Nov 24 22:17:08 CET 2005
see also http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-rdf-sparql-query-20051123/mime.txt
Type name:
application
Subtype name:
sparql-query
Required parameters:
None
Optional parameters:
None
Encoding considerations:
The syntax of the SPARQL Query Language is expressed over
code points in Unicode[UNICODE 3.0]. The encoding is always
UTF-8 [RFC3629].
Unicode code points may also be expressed using an \uXXXX (U+0 to
U+FFFF) or \UXXXXXXXX syntax (for U+10000 onwards) where X is a
hexadecimal digit [0-9A-F]
Security considerations:
SPARQL queries using FROM, FROM NAMED, or GRAPH may cause the
specified URI to be dereferenced. This may cause additional use of
network, disk or CPU resources along with associated secondary issues
such as denial of service. The security issues of Uniform Resource
Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax [RFC3986] Section 7 should be
considered. In addition, the contents of file: URIs can in some cases
be accessed, processed and returned as results, providing unintended
access to local resources.
The SPARQL language permits extensions, which will have their own
security implications.
Multiple IRIs may have the same appearance. Characters in different
scripts may look similar (a Cyrillic "o" may appear similar to a Latin
"o"). A character followed by combining characters may have the same
visual representation as another character (LATIN SMALL LETTER E
followed by COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT has the same visual representation
as LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE). Users of SPARQL must take care to
construct queries with IRIs that match the IRIs in the data. Further
information about matching of similar characters can be found in
Unicode Security Considerations [UNISEC] and Internationalized
Resource Identifiers (IRIs) [RFC3987] Section 8.
Interoperability considerations:
There are no known interoperability issues.
Published specification:
This specification.
Applications which use this media type:
No known applications currently use this media type.
Additional information:
Magic number(s):
A SPARQL query may have the string 'PREFIX' (case independent) near
the beginning of the document.
File extension(s):
".rq"
Base URI:
The SPARQL 'BASE <IRIref>' term can change the current base URI for
relative IRIrefs in the query language that are used sequentially
later in the document.
Macintosh file type code(s):
"TEXT"
Person & email address to contact for further information:
public-rdf-dawg-comments at w3.org
Intended usage:
COMMON
Restrictions on usage:
None
Author/Change controller:
The SPARQL specification is a work product of the World Wide Web
Consortium's RDF Data Access Working Group. The W3C has change
control over these specifications.
Normative References
[RFC3023] Murata, M., St. Laurent, S., and D. Kohn, "XML Media Types",
RFC 3023, January 2001.
[RFC3629] F. Yergeau, "UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646",
RFC 3629, November 2003.
[RFC3986] Berners-Lee, T., Fielding, R., and L. Masinter, "Uniform
Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax", STD 66, RFC
3986, January 2005.
[RFC3987] Duerst, M. and M. Suignard, "Internationalized Resource
Identifiers (IRIs)", RFC 3987, January 2005.
[UNICODE3.0] "The Unicode Standard Version 3.0", Addison Wesley,
Reading, MA, ISBN 0-201-61633-5, August 2000.
http://www.unicode.org/unicode/standard/standard.html.
[UNISEC] Mark Davis, Michel Suignard, "Unicode Security
Considerations.
http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr36/
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