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Serialize an RDF Document

Source: R/rdf_serialize.R
rdf_serialize.Rd

Serialize an RDF Document

Usage

rdf_serialize(
  rdf,
  doc = NULL,
  format = c("guess", "rdfxml", "nquads", "ntriples", "turtle", "jsonld"),
  namespace = NULL,
  prefix = names(namespace),
  base = getOption("rdf_base_uri", "localhost://"),
  ...
)

Arguments

rdf

an existing rdf triplestore to extend with triples from the parsed file. Default will create a new rdf object.

doc

file path to write out to. If null, will write to character.

format

rdf serialization format of the doc, one of "rdfxml", "nquads", "ntriples", "turtle" or "jsonld". If not provided, will try to guess based on file extension and fall back on rdfxml.

namespace

a named character containing the prefix to namespace bindings. names(namespace) are the prefixes, whereas namespace are the namespaces

prefix

(optional) for backward compatibility. See namespace. It contains the matching prefixes to the namespaces in namespace and is set automatically if you provide namespace as a named character vector.

base

the base URI to assume for any relative URIs (blank nodes)

...

additional arguments to redland::serializeToFile

Value

rdf_serialize returns the output file path doc invisibly. This makes it easier to use rdf_serialize in pipe chains with rdf_parse.

Examples

infile <- system.file("extdata", "dc.rdf", package="redland")
out <- tempfile("file", fileext = ".rdf")

some_rdf <- rdf_parse(infile)
rdf_add(some_rdf,
    subject = "http://www.dajobe.org/dave-beckett",
    predicate = "http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type",
    object = "http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Person")
rdf_serialize(some_rdf, out)

## With a namespace
rdf_serialize(some_rdf,
          out,
          format = "turtle",
          namespace = c(dc = "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/",
          foaf = "http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/")
          )

readLines(out)
#>  [1] "@base <localhost://> ."                                         
#>  [2] "@prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> ."   
#>  [3] "@prefix dc: <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/> ."               
#>  [4] "@prefix foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> ."                   
#>  [5] ""                                                               
#>  [6] "<http://www.dajobe.org/>"                                       
#>  [7] "    dc:creator \"Dave Beckett\" ;"                              
#>  [8] "    dc:description \"The generic home page of Dave Beckett.\" ;"
#>  [9] "    dc:title \"Dave Beckett's Home Page\" ."                    
#> [10] ""                                                               
#> [11] "<http://www.dajobe.org/dave-beckett>"                           
#> [12] "    a foaf:Person ."                                            
#> [13] ""