- From: Dave Beckett <dave.beckett@bristol.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 20:46:01 +0000
- To: Jan Algermissen <algermissen@acm.org>
- cc: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
>>>Jan Algermissen said: > > Hi, > > I am looking for an RDF parser in C and it would > really help me, if people on this list could recommend > one. > > My needs: > > - very free license (e.g. LGPL, MIT or Apache) > (my project is MIT licensed and so GPL is too > infectuous I think). > - quality and efficiency must be good > - high flexibility would be good (e.g such as expat > for XML) > - Linux is a must, win32 would be nice > > I looked at repat already...is that a good choice? > Does anyone have a Makefile for it? Dan's already replied with the general details and praise for Raptor :) So I'll fill in some other bits. It builds on everything I've tried that can do standard C (linux, unixes, win32, cygwin, OSX, cross-compiled, ...). License: It's dual LGPL/MPL, so you should be able to use either of those dynamically linked or statically with MIT-licensed. Other license options are possible. The FAQs covers this more in http://www.redland.opensource.ac.uk/FAQS.html As for efficiency, I still claim no memory leaks and this week I got it to parse a file with 550,000 triples in 7 seconds on a desktop PC, using <1M of memory. Repat was one of the better earlier C parsers. It hasn't kept up with some of the newer changes to the syntax. I recommend Raptor :) Cheers Dave
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