- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 14:32:16 -0500
- To: Jan Algermissen <algermissen@acm.org>
- Cc: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
* Jan Algermissen <algermissen@acm.org> [2003-03-25 20:10+0100] > > Hi, > > I am looking for an RDF parser in C and it would > really help me, if people on this list could recommend > one. > I think Raptor sounds like what you're looking for. There may be others I don't know so well, but Raptor is good. > My needs: > > - very free license (e.g. LGPL, MIT or Apache) > (my project is MIT licensed and so GPL is too > infectuous I think). http://www.redland.opensource.ac.uk/LICENSE.html The GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) Version 2 The Mozilla Public License V1.1 > - quality and efficiency must be good I've heard only good things > - high flexibility would be good (e.g such as expat > for XML) You can switch between XML parsers (expat, libxml); I think that's useful, as libxml supports more encodings. > - Linux is a must, win32 would be nice works fine for linux, i've built it under cygwin too. I think others have had successes with win32. Dave can probably offer more details. > > I looked at repat already...is that a good choice? imho, yes (and Redland if you want richer API and a bunch of language warppers) > Does anyone have a Makefile for it? download http://www.redland.opensource.ac.uk/dist/snapshots/source/raptor-0.9.9.tar.gz ...unpack, and run the ./configure script to build a makefile. Worked for me. 'make install' built a tool, /usr/local/bin/rapper that runs the parser as a commandline tool. cheers, dan
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