CL-NTRIPLES is a simple basic parser for Ntriples data.

cl-ntriples

**CL-NTRIPLES** provides a simple parser for the N-Triples data format as defined by the W3C for storing RDF/Semantic information. N-Triples is a line-based, plain text format for encoding an RDF graph.

Main entry function is `PARSE-NT` method that parses N-Triples from the given source. This method accepts a file pathname, an input stream, or a string.

Returns a list of triples consisting of three elements: subject, predicate, object. Subjects can be either an `uriref` or a `nodeID`. Objects can be of three types: `uriref`, `nodeID` or a `literal`. Depending on the type of the object it is encoded into an association list.

N-Triples data format standard definition is provided in the W3C documents:

* [RDF Testcases, N-Triples](http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-testcases/#ntriples)

Check also the [Semantic Web page](http://www.cliki.net/Semantic%20Web) on CLiki.

[Project page on Sourceforge.](http://sourceforge.net/projects/cl-ntriples/)


Sample usage
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CL-NTRIPLES [![Quickdocs](http://quickdocs.org/badge/cl-ntriples.svg)](http://quickdocs.org/cl-ntriples/) is available through Quicklisp:

```
(ql:quickload :cl-ntriples)
```

CL-NTRIPLES was developed for a practical purpose of accessing the wealth of data accumulated by the DBPedia project. For example, let's query information about a Ukrainian city of Chernihiv (wiki, dbpedia):

~~~~
(defvar page-url "http://dbpedia.org/data/Chernihiv.ntriples")
(defvar *res* (nt:parse-nt (drakma:http-request page-url)))
;; *res* now contains a list of triples, let's query some predicates
;; for brevity, predicates will defined as variables

(defconstant +prop-area-total-km+ "http://dbpedia.org/property/areaTotalKm")
(defconstant +rdf-label+ "http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label")

;; querying predicates is now reduced to a simple function call:
;; nt:predicate? TRIPLES PREDICATE &key LANG DATA-TYPE

;; what is the city area in km2?
(nt:predicate? *res* +prop-area-total-km+)
=> (("http://dbpedia.org/resource/Chernihiv"
  "http://dbpedia.org/property/areaTotalKm"
  ((:LITERAL-STRING . "79")
   (:URIREF . "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#int"))))

;; how do Japanese call this city?
(predicate? *res* +rdf-label+ :lang "ja")
=> (("http://dbpedia.org/resource/Chernihiv"
  "http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label"
  (:LITERAL-STRING "チェルニーヒウ" :LANG "ja")))
~~~~


Functions
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Package provides following functions:

* `PARSE-NT src` 
Parses and returns a list of triples

* `PREDICATE? triples predicate &key lang data-type`
filters out triples with matching predicates. Additional parameters (lang and data-type) can be used to limit returned triples to those with matching language and data type specifiers.

* `LITERAL-STRING triple`
returns the literal-string value of the given triple.



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A basic parser and a set of simple utilities to parse N-Triples data.

N-Triples provides a simple format for representation of Semantic
Web/W3C RDF semantic data. CL-NTRIPLES provides a simple and easy to
use parser for Common Lisp applications.

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