Raptor RDF Parser Toolkit - News
2003-07-29 Version 0.9.11 Released
Completely handles the revised RDF/XML syntax (including post W3C Last
Call changes)
Added Unicode Normal Form C (NFC) checking for literals (requires
GNOME glib 2.0 at present)
Added Exclusive XML Canonicalization for XML Literals
Added many more checks for bad syntax (mostly illegal property
attributes)
Updated parseType="Collection" triples after RDF Core WG change
Added an experimental RSS Tag Soup parser to read any pile of XML that
has elements such as channel, image, item tags with title, description
etc inside them into coherent RSS 1.0 RDF triples. (Requires libxml
2.5.0 or newer)
API: Added new methods raptor_get_name, raptor_get_label.
API: Added new methods raptor_set_default_generate_id_parameters and
raptor_set_generate_id_handler to control generation of IDs.
API: Modified utility function raptor_xml_escape_string arguments.
Ripped out ISO 3166 country code parts since commercial use might be
subject to a license fee.
Improvements to GTK example 'grapper'.
Several internal reorganisations for pulling out a SAX2 API, XML C14N.
Other minor bug fixes.
2003-04-17 Version 0.9.10 Released
Added parser lax / strict modes. lax is the default.
rdf:bagID now generates a warning in lax mode, an error in strict
Added raptor_www_no_www_library_init_finish to allow disabling of WWW
library startup/shutdown.
Added raptor_parse_abort to abort parsing inside a callback.
Added a GTK GUI example program grapper
Other minor bug fixes.
2003-03-28 Version 0.9.9 Released
Performance improvements - uses less memory, less repeated small
malloc/free sequences, faster for larger files.
Added WWW retrieval - can parse from an URI as well as files, given
either libcurl or libxml2 is available.
Minor bug fixes.
Various Win32 configure, building patches
Sources updated to use autoconf 1.6+, automake 2.52+
More debian packaging updates.
2003-02-13 Version 0.9.8 Released
Minor bug fixes (synchronising with Redland 0.9.12 release).
Fixed crashing on empty files
Fixed accepting illegal xmlns:prefix="" (prefix without URI not
allowed)
N-Triples bnodeIDs can now have '0's
Utility program rdfdump renamed to rapper; name conflicted with a
common Linux utility.
2002-12-20 Version 0.9.7 Released
Passes about 90% of RDF Core WG Test Cases
All memory leaks fixed
Portability fixes - compilers, scripts, auto* tools, libxml2 version
rdf:ID syntax and duplicates checked
rdf:bagID supported
Added more conformance tests, errors and warnings.
2002-11-02 Version 0.9.6 Released
Calling API changed to provide a common interface to the RDF parsers.
The libraptor.3 manual page describes the changes.
Added support for RDF datatyped literals in RDF/XML with rdf:datatype
attribute on property elements and N-Triples with the
"string"^^<datatypeURIref>.
Added support for rdf:parseType="Collection" for RDF Collections
URI class allows swappable implementation by applications.
URI class now handles file: URIs for Win32 and Unix conventions.
Fixes to enable it to work on Apple OSX 10.1, 10.2 (also tested
working on Linux/x86, Solaris/sparc, FreeBSD/x86)
Many internal changes to support API changes, allow it to work with
Redland when compiled as a separate library
Reorganised source into separate modules - URI, xml parser, ntriples
parser, XML namespaces, XML qnames, locator.
More resilience with XML errors and XML parser errors - none of
libxml2's XML test suite examples crash raptor.
N-Triples parser recovers gracefully from errors in content
Packing for debian included
Added manual pages libraptor.3 and rapper.1
Added raptor-config script for compiling with the library.
2002-06-08 Version 0.9.5 Released
Many bugs fixed
Added full relative URI resolving
Work around bugs in libxml and expat (older versions)
Support libxml with the use of entities in the document
Support xml:lang passing to application
2002-03-27 Version 0.9.4 Released
XML Base support (xml:base) added
xml:lang support added with N-Triples lang-string support
All N-Triples string escapes implemented
N-Triples support with XML literals - xml("<foo/>") and plain "foo"
removed all special code for containers; treated as regular typedNodes
rdf:parseType="Literal" now working
Builds as shared and static libraries
Conformance test suite added
2001-08-21 Version 0.9.3 Released
N-Triples parser added
rdf:parseType="Literal" works much better (Aaron Michal and me)
DAML collections support added (Aaron Michal)
Win32 patch added - I can't confirm my merge didn't break this (Aaron
Michal)
N-Triples updated to support CR, LF and CR LF endings
Make parser generated ids appear distinguised from regular URIs
Added N-Triples output
Made rdf:type, rdf:value as property attributes work
Made empty typed nodes work
GNOME xml / libxml error location (line, column) values corrected.
2001-07-03 Version 0.9.2 Released
Now called Raptor
2001-06-06 Version 0.9.1 Released
Many bug fixes
Updates for Redland API changes
Fixed rdf:parsetype="literal" buffer overrun
Added better XML parser auto-detection for various expats and libxml
2001-01-22 Version 0.9.0 Released
First release
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