Raptor RDF Parser Library - News 2010-01-30 Raptor Version 1.4.21 Released This is a bug fix only release with no new features. New development has moved to raptor 2 where a planned ABI and API break is underway. RDFa parser buffer management problems were fixed Turtle parser and serializer now use QNames correctly against specification RDF/XML parser now resets correctly to detect duplicate rdf:IDs Made a few other minor bug and build fixes Fixed reported issues: 0000318, 0000319, 0000326, 0000331, 0000332 and 0000337 See the Raptor 1.4.21 Release Notes for the full details of the changes. 2009-11-28 Raptor Version 1.4.20 Released Turtle serializing performance improvement by Chris Cannam librdfa RDFa parser updates to fix empty datatype, xml:lang and 1-char prefixes by Manu Sporny Fix a crash when the GRDDL parser reported errors Enable large file support for 32-bit systems Several resilience improvements by Lauri Aalto Other minor portability and bug fixes Fixed reported issues: 0000306 0000307 0000310 and 0000312. See the Raptor 1.4.20 Release Notes for the full details of the changes. 2009-07-19 Raptor Version 1.4.19 Released Many improvements to RSS tag soup (RSSes and Atom) parser and the RSS 1.0 and Atom serializers Several fixes and improvements to the N-Triples, RDFa and RDF/XML parsers and Turtle serializer Improved the use and configuration of static libxml functions for better compatibility Several Win32 portability fixes - Lou Sakey Many internal changes for upcoming Raptor V2 - primarily by Lauri Aalto Many other fixes and resilience improvements. Fixed reported issues: 0000259, 0000262, 0000263, 0000266, 0000269, 0000270, 0000276, 0000277, 0000287, 0000288, 0000289, 0000290, 0000293, 0000296, 0000299 and 0000303. WARNING: FUTURE ABI and API CHANGES. The next release of raptor 1.4.x will include bug fixes only and no new features. New development will move to raptor 2 where a planned ABI and API break will happen. There may be preview releases of raptor 2 with 1.9.x numbering. See the Raptor 1.4.19 Release Notes for the full details of the changes. 2008-06-25 Raptor Version 1.4.18 Released Added an RDFa parser using an embedded version of librdfa by Manu Sporny of Digital Bazaar. Added an Atom 1.0 (RFC 4287) serializer with several output parameters. Improved RSS 1.0 serializer functionality and resilience. Added new API methods for qname, serializer, sequence and XML writer classes. Many other fixes and resilience improvements. Fixed reported issues: 0000186 and 0000255. See the Raptor 1.4.18 Release Notes for the full details of the changes. 2008-03-30 Raptor Version 1.4.17 Released Added two new JSON serializers: resource-centric 'json' (Talis RDF/JSON) and triple-centric 'json-triples' Added a new public XML SAX2 API class Added a new error handling structure Made the I/O Stream class support reading Added several new API methods. Made several fixes, portability and resilience improvements. Fixed reported issues: 0000252 and 0000245. See the Raptor 1.4.17 Release Notes for the full details of the changes. 2007-10-01 Raptor Version 1.4.16 Released 100% support for the GRDDL W3C Recommendation of 2007-09-11 Turtle parser and serializer were updated to support @base from Turtle 2007-09-11. Turtle and RDF/XML serializers had performance improvements for large graphs. Added a TRiG Parser based on Turtle with named graph support. Several other API changes, fixed and improvements were made. Fixed reported issues: 0000188, 0000192, 0000194, 0000195, 0000207, 0000210, 0000214, 0000216, 0000217, 0000232, 0000237, 0000238 and 0000239 Many other fixes and improvements. See the Raptor 1.4.16 Release Notes for the full details of the changes. 2007-03-26 Raptor Version 1.4.15 Released GRDDL parser substantially updated to support the GRDDL W3C Working Draft 2 March 2007 Errors for XML parsing and URI 404s are reported much better Fixed reported issues: #0000174, #0000177, #0000178, #0000180 Many other minor fixes and improvements. See the Raptor 1.4.15 Release Notes for the full details of the changes. 2007-01-31 Raptor Version 1.4.14 Released New Turtle serializer by Dave Robillard based on the existing RDF/XML-Abbrev serializer. New GraphViz DOT format serializer by Evan Nemerson. GRDDL parser now does namespace and profile URI recursion and has other improvements and fixes. Fixed reported issues: #0000032, #0000141, #0000143, #0000148, #0000155 and #0000157 Many other fixes and improvements. See the Raptor 1.4.14 Release Notes for the full details of the changes. 2006-10-22 Raptor Version 1.4.13 Released Fixed a memory leak in reusing the XML writer Fixed reported issues: #0000134 Minor updates and fixes to tutorial, configuration and build See the Raptor 1.4.13 Release Notes for the full details of the changes. 2006-08-27 Raptor Version 1.4.12 Released Restore serializer enumeration ordering back to that of 1.4.10 which was causing Redland problems when writing type 'application/rdf+xml'. See the Raptor 1.4.12 Release Notes for the gory details. 2006-08-26 Raptor Version 1.4.11 Released Added network request filtering for parsers Improved the GRDDL parser to read Embedded RDF and HCalendar The Guess parser can now be reused to do multiple guesses The RSS 1.0 Serializer now works again Fixed reported issues: #0000014, #0000041, #0000089, #0000091 , #0000110 and #0000112 Made several other changes, fixes and improvements. See the Raptor 1.4.11 Release Notes for the full details of the changes. 2006-07-14 Raptor Version 1.4.10 Released Fixed a crash with RSS Tag Soup parser generating triples too late Fixed a crash with the RDF/XML parser and serializer if a comment was seen outside an element Parsers no longer generate any triple parts of type RAPTOR_IDENTIFIER_TYPE_ORDINAL See the Raptor 1.4.10 Release Notes for the full details of the changes. 2006-04-22 Raptor Version 1.4.9 Released Raptor Tutorial added covering parsing and serializing with examples Raptor Reference Manual now covers 100% of the public API rapper can now pretty-print RDF using namespaces as hints Turtle parser gains boolean literals Requests for content now send appropriate Accept: headers No longer require libxml for rss-tag-soup parser Various Win32 fixes and VC build files updates (John Barstow) Many other bug fixes and changes were made. NOTE: Generation of RAPTOR_IDENTIFIER_TYPE_PREDICATE was removed as deprecated in 1.4.8. See the Raptor 1.4.9 Release Notes for the full details of the changes. 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 Raptor 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 Raptor 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 Raptor 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 Raptor 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 Raptor 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 Rene Puls) Many other API changes See the Raptor 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 Raptor 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 Raptor 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 Raptor 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 Raptor 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 Raptor 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 Raptor 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 Raptor 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"^^. 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("") 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 __________________________________________________________________ Copyright (C) 2001-2010 Dave Beckett Copyright (C) 2001-2005 University of Bristol