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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Raptor RDF Parser Toolkit</title>
<link rel="meta" type="application/rdf+xml" title="DOAP" href="raptor.rdf" />
</head>
<body>
<h1 style="text-align:center">Raptor RDF Parser Toolkit</h1>
<h2 style="text-align:center"><a href="http://purl.org/net/dajobe/">Dave Beckett</a></h2>
<h2>Overview</h2>
<p><a href="http://librdf.org/raptor/">Raptor</a>
is a free software / Open Source C library that provides
a set of parsers and serializers that
generate Resource Description Framework (RDF) triples
by parsing syntaxes or serialize the triples into a syntax.
The supported parsing syntaxes are RDF/XML,
N-Triples, Turtle, RSS tag soup including Atom 1.0 and 0.3,
GRDDL for XHTML and XML. The serializing syntaxes are RDF/XML (regular,
and abbreviated), N-Triples, RSS 1.0, Atom 1.0 and Adobe XMP.</p>
<p>Raptor was designed to work closely with the
<a href="http://librdf.org/">Redland RDF library</a>
(<b>R</b>DF <b>P</b>arser <b>T</b>oolkit f<b>o</b>r <b>R</b>edland)
but is entirely separate. It is a portable library that works
across many POSIX systems (Unix, GNU/Linux, BSDs, OSX, cygwin,
win32). Raptor has no memory leaks and is fast.
</p>
<p>This is a mature and stable library. A summary
of the changes can be found in the <a href="NEWS.html">NEWS</a> file,
detailed API changes in the <a href="RELEASE.html">release notes</a>
and file-by-file changes in the CVS <a href="ChangeLog">ChangeLog</a>.</p>
<ul>
<li>Designed to integrate well with <a href="http://librdf.org/">Redland</a></li>
<li>Parses content on the web if <a href="http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/">libcurl</a>, <a href="http://xmlsoft.org/">libxml2</a> or BSD libfetch is available.</li>
<li>Supports all RDF terms including datatyped and XML literals</li>
<li>Optional features including parsers and serialisers can be selected at configure time.</li>
<li>C#, Java, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Tcl interfaces when used via Redland</li>
<li>No memory leaks</li>
<li>Fast</li>
<li>Standalone <a href="rapper.html">rapper</a> RDF parser utility program</li>
</ul>
<p>Known bugs and issues are recorded in the
<a href="http://bugs.librdf.org/">Redland issue tracker</a>.</p>
<h2>Parsers</h2>
<h3>RDF/XML Parser</h3>
<p>A Parser for the standard
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-syntax-grammar/">RDF/XML syntax</a>.</p>
<ul>
<li>Fully handles the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-syntax-grammar/">RDF/XML syntax updates</a> for <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlbase/">XML Base</a>, <code>xml:lang</code>, RDF datatyping and Collections.</li>
<li>Handles all RDF vocabularies such as <a href="http://www.foaf-project.org/">FOAF</a>, <a href="http://www.purl.org/rss/1.0/">RSS 1.0</a>, <a href="http://dublincore.org/">Dublin Core</a>, <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-features/">OWL</a>, <a href="http://usefulinc.com/doap">DOAP</a></li>
<li>Handles <code>rdf:resource</code> / <code>resource</code> attributes</li>
<li>Uses <a href="http://expat.sourceforge.net/">expat</a> and/or (GNOME) <a href="http://xmlsoft.org/">libxml</a> XML parsers as available or required</li>
</ul>
<h3>N-Triples Parser</h3>
<p>A parser for the
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-testcases/#ntriples">N-Triples</a>
syntax as defined by the
<a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/RDFCore/">W3C RDF Core working group</a>
for the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-testcases/">RDF Test Cases</a>.
</p>
<h3>Turtle Parser</h3>
<p>A parser for the
<a href="http://www.dajobe.org/2004/01/turtle/">Turtle Terse RDF Triple Language</a>
syntax, designed as a useful subset of
<a href="http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Notation3">Notation 3</a>.
</p>
<h3>RSS "tag soup" parser</h3>
<p>A parser for the multiple XML RSS formats that use the elements
such as channel, item, title, description in different ways.
Attempts to turn the input into
<a href="http://www.purl.org/rss/1.0/">RSS 1.0</a>
RDF triples. True <a href="http://www.purl.org/rss/1.0/">RSS 1.0</a>,
as a full RDF vocabulary, is best parsed by the RDF/XML parser.
It also generates triples for RSS enclosures.</p>
<p>This parser also provides support for the Atom 1.0 syndication
format defined in IETF
<a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4287.txt">RFC 4287</a>
</p>
<h3>GRDDL parser</h3>
<p>A parser for
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-grddl-20061024/">Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages (GRDDL)</a>
syntax, W3C Working Draft of 2006-10-24 which allows reading XHTML
and XML as RDF triples by using profiles in the document that declare
XSLT transforms from the XHTML or XML content into RDF/XML or other
RDF syntax which can then be parsed.</p>
<p>The parser is beta quality.</p>
<h2>Serializers</h2>
<h3>RDF/XML Serializer</h3>
<p>A serializer to the standard
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-syntax-grammar/">RDF/XML syntax</a>
as revised by the
<a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/RDFCore/">W3C RDF Core working group</a>
in 2004. This writes a plain triple-based RDF/XML serialization with
no optimisation or pretty-printing.</p>
<p>A second serializer is provided using several of the RDF/XML
abbreviations to provide a more compact readable format, at the cost
of some pre-processing. This is suitable for small documents.
</p>
<h3>N-Triples Serializer</h3>
<p>A serializer to the
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-testcases/#ntriples">N-Triples</a>
syntax as used by the
<a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/RDFCore/">W3C RDF Core working group</a>
for the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-testcases/">RDF Test Cases</a>.
</p>
<h3>RSS 1.0 Serializer</h3>
<p>A serializer to the
<a href="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/spec">RDF Site Summary (RSS) 1.0</a>
format.
</p>
<h3>Atom 1.0 Serializer</h3>
<p>A serializer to the Atom 1.0 syndication format defined in IETF
<a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4287.txt">RFC 4287</a>
</p>
<h3>Adobe XMP Serializer</h3>
<p>An alpha quality serializer to the Adobe XMP profile of RDF/XML
suitable for embedding inside an external document.
</p>
<h3>GraphViz DOT Serializer</h3>
<p>An serializer to the GraphViz
<a href="http://www.graphviz.org/doc/info/lang.html">DOT format</a>
which aids visualising RDF graphs.
</p>
<h3>Turtle Serializer</h3>
<p>A serializer for the
<a href="http://www.dajobe.org/2004/01/turtle/">Turtle Terse RDF Triple Language</a>
syntax.
</p>
<h2>Documentation</h2>
<p>The public API is described in the
<a href="libraptor.html">libraptor.3</a> UNIX manual page.
It is demonstrated in the
<a href="rapper.html">rapper</a>
utility program which shows how to call the parser and write
the triples in a serialization. When Raptor is used inside
<a href="http://librdf.org/">Redland</a>,
the Redland documentation explains
how to call the parser and contains several example programs.
There are also further examples in the <tt>example</tt> directory
of the distribution.</p>
<p>To install Raptor see the <a href="INSTALL.html">Installation document</a>.
</p>
<h2>Sources</h2>
<p>The packaged sources are available from
<a href="http://download.librdf.org/source/">http://download.librdf.org/source/</a> (master site) and also from the
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/librdf/">SourceForge site</a>.
The development <a href="http://subversion.tigris.org/">Subversion</a>
sources can also be
<a href="http://svn.librdf.org/view/raptor/">browsed with ViewCV</a>.
</p>
<h2>License</h2>
<p>This library is free software / open source software released
under the LGPL (GPL) or Apache 2.0 licenses. See
<a href="LICENSE.html">LICENSE.html</a> for full details.</p>
<h2>Mailing Lists</h2>
<p>The
<a href="http://librdf.org/lists/">Redland mailing lists</a>
discusses the development and use of Raptor and Redland as well as
future plans and announcement of releases.</p>
<hr />
<p>Copyright (C) 2000-2006 <a href="http://purl.org/net/dajobe/">Dave Beckett</a><br />Copyright (C) 2000-2005 <a href="http://www.bristol.ac.uk/">University of Bristol</a></p>
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