Raptor RDF Parser Toolkit - News
2006-01-03 Raptor Version 1.4.8 Released
RSS Tag Soup parser now reads Atom 1.0 and rewrites old Atom 0.3 terms
Added a guess parser that picks the parser to use based on protocol
information such as HTTP Content-Type
Created an enhanced API reference manual with gtk-doc
Serializers to build can now be selected at configure time
Parsers can now return the namespace prefix/URIs seen in parsing
Turtle parser update to version 2006-01-02 (announcement)
Fix for URI resolution bugs (win32 fix by John Barstow)
Several parser bug fixes for RDF/XML, RSS and GRDDL
RDF/XML serializers and XML writer can write XML 1.0 or XML 1.1
Added an alpha Atom 1.0 serializer
Added an Adobe XMP (RDF/XML profile) serializer
Internal source reorganisation
Many other changes, fixes and improvements.
NOTE: Raptor will be switching to use Subversion for version control
after the 1.4.8 release. See the Redland Subversion site or the online
Raptor installation notes for the latest information.
See the 1.4.8 Release Notes for the full details of the changes.
2005-06-08 Raptor Version 1.4.7 Released
Fix crashes in the RSS tag soup parser / serializer (Suzan Foster)
Fix a crash in the RDF/XML serializers with bad URI predicates.
See the 1.4.7 Release Notes for the full details of the changes.
2005-05-19 Raptor Version 1.4.6 Released
Added a Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages
(GRDDL) parser for reading XHTML and XML as RDF triples
Updated RSS enclosures support in RSS tag soup parser and RSS 1.0
serializer (Suzan Foster)
Fixed several crashes with RSS tag soup parser, RDF/XML-abbrev
serializer.
The turtle parser now accepts """long literals"""
See the 1.4.6 Release Notes for the full details of the changes.
2005-02-06 Raptor Version 1.4.5 Released
Added an RDF/XML with abbreviations serializer (Steve Shepard)
Handle RSS 1.1 in RSS tag soup parser
More fixes for broken OSX libxml2
See the 1.4.5 Release Notes for the full details of the changes.
2005-01-15 Raptor Version 1.4.4 Released
Fixed crashes in RSS tag soup parser and RSS 1.0 serializer
Handle RSS 0.9 namespace in RSS tag soup parser
Portability fixes for Win32 (Dave Viner)
See the 1.4.4 Release Notes for the full details of the changes.
2005-01-03 Raptor Version 1.4.3 Released
New XML Writer API
Improved RDF/XML serializer allowing user namespace declarations and
writing relative URIs where possible
New RSS 1.0 serializer
Updated RSS tag soup parser
URI class can write relative URIs (Patch from René Puls)
Many other API changes
See the 1.4.3 Release Notes for the full details of the changes.
2004-11-01 Raptor Version 1.4.2 Released
Fix raptor_xml_escape_string error return.
See the 1.4.2 Release Notes for the full details of the changes.
2004-10-29 Raptor Version 1.4.1 Released
Fixed crashes in URI decoding and RSS enclosures.
See the 1.4.1 Release Notes for the full details of the changes.
2004-10-24 Raptor Version 1.4.0 Released
Added a serializing class for writing RDF triples as a syntax
Added serializers for RDF/XML and N-Triples
Added an I/O stream class for aiding writing
Added RSS enclosure support to RSS Tag Soup parser (Suzan Foster)
See the 1.4.0 Release Notes for the full details of the changes.
2004-09-20 Raptor Version 1.3.3 Released
License changed to LGPL 2.1/Apache 2
Added a new Unicode NFC checker
Rewritten URI parsing and resolving code
Added configure selection of RDF parsers
Updated the RSS Tag Soup parser to handle Atom 0.3
Updated the Turtle parser to handle large documents (Geoff Chappell)
Added a parser feature to disable rdf:ID duplicate checking
Updated rdf:ID duplicate value checking implementation
Portability fixes for building on win32 (Chris Pointon)
See the 1.3.3 Release Notes for the full details of the changes.
2004-07-21 Raptor Version 1.3.2 Released
Added support for compiling against expat source trees (Mark Smith)
Added raptor_alloc_memory to allocate memory in raptor, typically
needed by handler routines on win32.
Make errors in fetching WWW content pass to the main error handler.
Added accessor functions for parts of the raptor_locator structure
(Edd Dumbill)
Disabled the broken Unicode NFC checking via GNOME glib for this
release.
See the 1.3.2 Release Notes for the full details of the changes.
2004-06-12 Raptor Version 1.3.1 Released
Correct raptor_print_statement declaration argument statement to have
one less 'const', to match the code.
raptor.h now includes stdarg.h
Portability fixes for win32
Updates to Turtle parser to only allow language with non-datatyped
literals; allow a '_' immediately after a ':' in qnames and make bare
':' work.
Added a warning for unknown rdf:parseType values, when parsing in lax
mode. This is controlled by a new parser feature warn_other_parsetypes
The Turtle parser was fixed to re-initialise correctly when performing
multiple parsings
Fixes to the file: URI support for %-escaping and for Win32 filenames
See the 1.3.1 Release Notes for the full details of the changes.
2004-05-11 Raptor Version 1.3.0 Released
Updated Turtle parser to fix the collections syntax, add integer
literals and allow - in names.
Added support for guessing a parser from content or identifiers
Completed parser feature support
Added sending HTTP Accept: headers for WWW retrieval when possible
Added new utility sequence and stringbuffer classes
Several other functions added and improvements made.
See the 1.3.0 Release Notes for the full details of the changes.
2004-01-24 Raptor Version 1.2.0 Released
Added a Turtle parser (was N-Triples Plus) now with collections.
Added raptor_syntaxes_enumerate to get syntax name, label, mime_type
or uri_string of all known parsers.
Added WWW access via BSD libfetch if available.
Updated the GNOME GUI grapper program to report errors and warnings
2003-12-31 Raptor Version 1.1.0 Released
Added an N-Triples Plus parser
Updated for RDF/XML Revised Working Draft (10 October 2003) allowing
rdf:RDF to be optional by default. No further changes were needed for
RDF/XML Revised Proposed Recommendation (15 December 2003)
Made URI class constructors, methods and factory methods as well as
some other utility functions using or returning URIs or literals take
unsigned char* rather than char*.
Added the XML namespace, XML namespace stack and XML qname classes to
the public API.
Added a function to discover supported parsers.
Fixes for line number counting in N-Triples
Added support for libxml2 SAX2 API for 2.6.0 and later.
The N-Triples parser now uses the generate ID code.
Added configure options for XML 1.1 names and disabling NFC check
code.
2003-09-08 Raptor Version 1.0.0 Released
Several long-deprecated functions were removed and consequently the
library shared version number was increased to 1
Fixed scanning for rdf:RDF so that RDF/XML in other XML works, such as
in SVG
raptor-config --libs now works, added --libtool-libs and
--version-decimal
Check N-Triples legal Unicode character range #x0-#x10FFFF
Normalize RDF/XML xml:lang and N-Triples language to lowercase on
input
Worked around libxml2 bug causing a crash on some error reporting
Added raptor_parse_file_stream for parsing a C FILE*
Tidied rapper utility argument handling, added --version
2003-08-25 Raptor Version 0.9.12 Released
Fix some XML memory leaks in Exclusive XML Canonicalization.
Stop parsing RSS tag soup after a user abort
Improved N-Triples syntax checking.
Crash fixes for 64 bit Alpha/Sparc Linux/Solaris (varargs, size_t)
Fixed some other minor memory leaks with rdf:datatype and rdf:ID
attributes.
2003-07-29 Raptor 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 Raptor 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 Raptor 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 Raptor 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 Raptor 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 Raptor 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 Raptor 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 Raptor 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 Raptor 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 Raptor Version 0.9.2 Released
Now called Raptor
2001-06-06 Raptor 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 Raptor Version 0.9.0 Released
First release
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