According to sparql.org this parses: DELETE WHERE { ?s ?p ?o } According to the spec empty brackets are required in the construct template.
http://www.w3.org/Submission/SPARQL-Update/#rConstructTemplate Is this an extension for ARQ, or am I mis-reading the grammar? Is there a pedantic parser for the updates that would parse only valid 1.1 syntax for updates (as there is for query) ?