Re: Small, standalone, RDF parsers

SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL!

Thank you very much for this well focussed example!

I have now POJOs modelled after SKOS and I defined a ConceptScheme.xsd 
to marshall/unmarshall them in XML using JAXB.
It loads all Agrovoc in 7 seconds (3GHz portable PC under Windows).
I must now only define a setTriple and a getTriples able to 
add/test/retrieve triples within my POJO world... right?

Have a nice day!

Christophe

Norman Gray a écrit :
>
> Christophe, hello.
>
> On 2009 Apr 8, at 17:50, Christophe Dupriez wrote:
>
>> You can check OpenRDF RIO (part of Sesame): let me know the result, I 
>> plan to use it for my SKOS project which now imports from XML files.
>
> Thanks for this suggestion -- I would have casually excluded Sesame 
> from consideration on the grounds that it was 'too big'.  However, 
> because Sesame is distributed as a couple of dozen jar files, it's 
> possible to assemble quite a small parser from them.
>
> As an example, I've attached a 20kB tarball (compressed to 3.7kB) 
> which contains an example program which parses both RDF/XML or Turtle 
> and then spits out the result in (trivial) n-triples format.  The 
> Sesame parsers are clearly modelled on the SAX ones, with a parser 
> which processes an input stream, and calls a handler which assembles 
> the model/graph.
>
> The Makefile in the attachment shows which subset of Sesame jars are 
> required.  When the whole lot is assembled into a single jar file it 
> comes to 250kB, which could probably be whittled down a _lot_ with 
> jar-optimisation.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Norman
>
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