Re: librdfa - a pure C RDFa parser

Wow indeed!

We will have a very easy candidate recommendation phase!

Ivan

Hausenblas, Michael wrote:
> 
> Manu,
> 
> 1. Wow! Great! 
> 2. Damn, you've beat us (we're working on a C# implementation :)
> 
> Cheers,
> 	Michael
> 
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>  Michael Hausenblas, MSc.
>  Institute of Information Systems & Information Management
>  JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH
>   
>  http://www.joanneum.at/iis/
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>  
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf-request@w3.org 
>> [mailto:public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Manu Sporny
>> Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 10:24 AM
>> To: RDFa mailing list
>> Subject: librdfa - a pure C RDFa parser
>>
>>
>> librdfa is a pure C implementation of a standards-compliant 
>> RDFa parser.
>> The library is quite easy to use (there are only 5 functions). librdfa
>> is stream-based, very small and quite fast.
>>
>> You can download the source using git:
>>
>> git clone http://rdfa.digitalbazaar.com/librdfa.git
>>
>> This implementation was completed using the latest RDFa Syntax Document
>> specification (Jan 25th, 2008). I followed the processing rules section
>> exactly as written. It took around 43 hours to implement. I have some
>> feedback for Mark on the processing section (all very minor issues). It
>> was much easier than I thought it would be... constructing a set of
>> steps that were that easy to follow takes a considerable 
>> amount of skill
>> - much respect to Mark for laying the rules out clearly, concisely and
>> correctly :)
>>
>> The good news is that many of the test cases that I tried generate
>> triples, some of them are even correct! I just got done with the first
>> full implementation of the parser, so there are loads of bugs around,
>> I'm sure. The library is available under a
>> BSD/GPL/whatever-will-get-it-in-as-many-applications-as-possibl
>> e license.
>>
>> Here are some "features":
>>
>> - uses expat for the underlying XML parser
>> - small in size - 19KB library
>> - big in heart* (little code that does big things)
>> - cross-platform (compiles for Linux now, Windows in two weeks)
>> - stream-based (SAX based - no DOM processing)
>> - small execution footprint (~2KB per RDFa context)
>> - designed to be Swig'ed (C#, Lua, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby)
>>
>> I'll be working towards getting this parser fully compliant with the
>> test suite in the next couple of weeks. We're going to work on
>> integrating it into Firefox (via a native XPCOM component) in the weeks
>> after that.
>>
>> -- manu
>>
>> * - not actually a feature
>>
>> -- 
>> Manu Sporny
>> President/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
>> blog: Intro to the Semantic Web in 6 minutes (video)
>> http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2007/12/26/semantic-web-intro
>>
>>
>>
> 

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