Online SWI-Prolog RDF parser demo

This page provides an online demonstration of an RDF parser written in SWI-Prolog. This RDF parser has a couple of attractive properties:

Small: Both in terms of source-code (< 700 lines) and executable.
Fast: Parses about 400 Kbytes/sec on a Pentium-II/450.
Conforming: This parser conforms to http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-rdf-syntax.
Prolog based: Many people regard the Prolog programming language a good vehicle to reason about RDF statements. Having a simple and fast Prolog-based RDF parser makes life easier.
Portability: The RDF parser itself is written in ISO Prolog. The XML parser is written in ANSI-C. There is no standard for interfacing Prolog and C, but the interface is relatively small.

A more detailed description of this packages is available in in this document. The sources of the parser are included into the sgml packages for SWI-Prolog. The individual source files can also be examined through the cvsweb service, which also provides access to the most recent changes

Please write your RDF description into the text-area below or select a local file using the File: item and submit it. If anything goes wrong, please mail Jan Wielemaker.

The RDF-data submitted is kept anonymously on our server and might be used by us to examine problems with our RDF parser. We do not publish this material. The result-page provides a form for attaching a comment to the stored RDF statement.

Notes

rdf:resource, etc.

The specification and discussion on the rdf interest group yielded no satisfactory solution how to deal with RDF attributes that are not in the RDF namespace such as ID, resource, etc. This parser interprets such attributes in the namespace of the element, so the statement below is not interpreted as a propertyElt with value me but as a typedNode with predicate resource and value literal(me).

  <s:Creator resource="#me">


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