Rapier RDF Parser - Installation

Dave Beckett
Institute for Learning and Research Technology
University of Bristol

SOURCES

The sources are available from http://www.redland.opensource.ac.uk/dist/source/ (master site) and also from the SourceForge site.

CONFIGURING and BUILDING

The configuring is done via the GNU configure program as generated by the autoconf system. See the generic GNU installation instructions in INSTALL for information about general options such as --prefix etc.

Rapier also supports the following extra configure options:

--with-xml-parser=NAME

Pick an XML parser to use - either expat (default) or libxml. At present these must be installed system libraries.

If everything is in the default place, do:

   ./configure

More commonly you will be doing something like this:

   ./configure --with-xml-parser=expat

Compile the parser and the test program rdfdump with;

   make

This test program can then be used with local RDF/XML content files like this:

  rdfdump file:/path/to/test/file.rdf

It can also extract RDF content inside general XML when the --scan option is set. e.g. if some RDF/XML is embedded inside some XHTML, it could be extracted with:

  rdfdump --scan file:/path/to/test/doc.xhtml

Copyright 2001 Dave Beckett, Institute for Learning and Research Technology, University of Bristol

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