Article:		Something Useful This Way Comes
Subject:		Toolsets needed
Date:		2004-06-11 00:27:38
From:		Julian Bond
If we had widely available easily used RDF parsers, complaints about the exact layout of the RDF-XML would be moot. You mention Jena. It may well be very good. But what if I'm working in a dotnet environment or I want to deploy on cheap webhosting where I can't use CPAN and all I've got is an out of date php? IMHO, widespread use of RDF is still held up by the lack of tools. Which is somewhat surprising given how long it's been around now.

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• Toolsets needed
  2004-06-11 07:15:53 bblfish [Reply]
  
  If you ask for your RDF in NTriples format

  
  http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/RDFCore/ntriples/

  
  then you could parse it with something as simple as awk, or with the basic c string manipulation functions. You get one triple per line and just need to cut in up into three sections
  <uri1> <uri2> <uri3>

  
  Could not be simpler really.