Not yet 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Raptor 1.4.3 Release Notes for the full details of the changes.
Fix raptor_xml_escape_string error return.
See the Raptor 1.4.2 Release Notes for the full details of the changes.
Fixed crashes in URI decoding and RSS enclosures.
See the Raptor 1.4.1 Release Notes for the full details of the changes.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
Now called Raptor
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
First release
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