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Spotlight PEPPOL BIS Billing 3.0 The EU e-invoicing mandate is here — France Sept 2026, Belgium Jan 2026, Germany 2025.

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SPARQL EDI

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SPARQL query language for EDI graphs web standard.

Definition

SPARQL (SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language) is the W3C query language for RDF graphs. SQL-like syntax: SELECT ?s ?p ?o WHERE { ?s ?p ?o }. Applied to semantic EDI to query the commercial knowledge graph — 'all invoices > 1000 € issued by a French supplier in Q1 2026'.

Origin

SPARQL 1.0 published W3C Recommendation 2008, v1.1 in 2013.

Example in context

SELECT ?invoice ?amount WHERE { ?invoice a :Invoice ; :hasIssuer ?issuer ; :hasTotal ?amount . ?issuer :country "FR" . FILTER(?amount > 1000) }

  • RDF EDI — model of queried graphs.