- From: Hausenblas, Michael <michael.hausenblas@joanneum.at>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:51:35 +0100
- To: "Manu Sporny" <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
- Cc: "RDFa mailing list" <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>
Manu, 1. Wow! Great! 2. Damn, you've beat us (we're working on a C# implementation :) Cheers, Michael ---------------------------------------------------------- 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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