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<h1 style="text-align:center">Raptor RDF Parser Toolkit - News</h1>

<h2>2004-06-12 Version 1.3.1 Released</h2>
<p>
Correct <code>raptor_print_statement</code> declaration argument
statement to have one less 'const', to match the code.<br />
raptor.h now includes stdarg.h<br />
Portability fixes for win32<br />
Updates to
<a href="http://www.ilrt.bristol.ac.uk/discovery/2004/01/turtle/">Turtle</a>
parser to only allow language with non-datatyped literals;
allow a '_' immediately after a ':' in qnames and make
bare ':' work.<br />
Added a warning for unknown <code>rdf:parseType</code> values, when
parsing in lax mode.  This is controlled by a new parser feature
warn_other_parsetypes<br />
The Turtle parser was fixed to re-initialise correctly when performing
multiple parsings<br /> 
Fixes to the file: URI support for %-escaping and for Win32 filenames
</p>

<p>See the <a href="RELEASE.html#rel1_3_3">1.3.1 Release Notes</a>
for the full details of the changes.</p>


<h2>2004-05-11 Version 1.3.0 Released</h2>
<p>
Updated <a href="http://www.ilrt.bristol.ac.uk/discovery/2004/01/turtle/">Turtle</a> parser to fix the collections syntax, add integer literals and allow - in names.<br />
Added support for guessing a parser from content or identifiers<br />
Completed parser feature support<br />
Added sending HTTP Accept: headers for WWW retrieval when possible<br />
Added new utility sequence and stringbuffer classes<br />
Several other functions added and improvements made.
</p>

<p>See the <a href="RELEASE.html#rel1_3_0">1.3.0 Release Notes</a>
for the full details of the changes.</p>


<h2>2004-01-24 Version 1.2.0 Released</h2>
<p>Added a
<a href="http://www.ilrt.bristol.ac.uk/discovery/2004/01/turtle/">Turtle</a> parser (was N-Triples Plus) now with collections.<br />
Added raptor_syntaxes_enumerate to get syntax name, label,
mime_type or uri_string of all known parsers.<br />
Added WWW access via BSD libfetch if available.<br />
Updated the GNOME GUI grapper program to report errors and warnings<br />
</p>

<h2>2003-12-31 Version 1.1.0 Released</h2>
<p>Added an
<a href="http://www.ilrt.bristol.ac.uk/discovery/2003/11/ntriplesplus/">N-Triples Plus</a> parser<br />
Updated for <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-rdf-syntax-grammar-20031010/">RDF/XML Revised Working Draft</a> (10 October 2003) allowing <code>rdf:RDF</code> to be optional by default.  No further changes were needed for <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/PR-rdf-syntax-grammar-20031215/">RDF/XML Revised Proposed Recommendation</a> (15 December 2003)<br />
Made URI class constructors, methods and factory methods as
well as some other utility functions using or returning URIs or
literals take <code>unsigned char*</code> rather than <code>char*</code>.<br />
Added the XML namespace, XML namespace stack and XML qname classes to
the public API.<br />
Added a function to discover supported parsers.<br />
Fixes for line number counting in N-Triples<br />
Added support for libxml2 SAX2 API for 2.6.0 and later.<br />
The N-Triples parser now uses the generate ID code.<br />
Added configure options for XML 1.1 names and disabling NFC check code.
</p>

<h2>2003-09-08 Version 1.0.0 Released</h2>
<p>
Several long-deprecated functions were removed and consequently the
library shared version number was increased to 1<br />
Fixed scanning for <code>rdf:RDF</code> so that RDF/XML in other
XML works, such as in SVG<br />
<code>raptor-config --libs</code> now works, added <code>--libtool-libs</code>
and <code>--version-decimal</code><br />
Check N-Triples legal Unicode character range #x0-#x10FFFF<br />
Normalize RDF/XML <code>xml:lang</code> and N-Triples language to lowercase
on input<br />
Worked around libxml2 bug causing a crash on some error reporting<br />
Added raptor_parse_file_stream for parsing a C FILE*<br />
Tidied rapper utility argument handling, added --version
</p>

<h2>2003-08-25 Version 0.9.12 Released</h2>
<p>Fix some XML memory leaks in Exclusive XML Canonicalization.<br />
Stop parsing RSS tag soup after a user abort<br />
Improved N-Triples syntax checking.<br />
Crash fixes for 64 bit Alpha/Sparc Linux/Solaris (varargs, size_t)<br />
Fixed some other minor memory leaks with <tt>rdf:datatype</tt> and <tt>rdf:ID</tt> attributes.
</p>

<h2>2003-07-29 Version 0.9.11 Released</h2>
<p>Completely handles the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-syntax-grammar">revised RDF/XML syntax</a>
(including post W3C Last Call changes)<br />
Added Unicode Normal Form C (NFC) checking for literals (requires
GNOME glib 2.0 at present)<br />
Added Exclusive XML Canonicalization for XML Literals<br />
Added many more checks for bad syntax (mostly illegal property
attributes)<br />
Updated <tt>parseType="Collection"</tt> triples after RDF Core WG change<br />
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)<br />
API: Added new methods raptor_get_name, raptor_get_label.<br />
API: Added new methods raptor_set_default_generate_id_parameters and
raptor_set_generate_id_handler to control generation of IDs.<br />
API: Modified utility function raptor_xml_escape_string arguments.<br />
Ripped out ISO 3166 country code parts since commercial use might be
subject to a license fee.<br />
Improvements to GTK example 'grapper'.<br />
Several internal reorganisations for pulling out a SAX2 API, XML C14N.<br />
Other minor bug fixes.
</p>

<h2>2003-04-17 Version 0.9.10 Released</h2>
<p>Added parser lax / strict modes. lax is the default.<br />
<tt>rdf:bagID</tt> now generates a warning in lax mode, an error in strict<br />
Added raptor_www_no_www_library_init_finish to allow disabling of
WWW library startup/shutdown.<br />
Added raptor_parse_abort to abort parsing inside a callback.<br />
Added a GTK GUI example program grapper<br />
Other minor bug fixes.<br />
</p>

<h2>2003-03-28 Version 0.9.9 Released</h2>
<p>Performance improvements - uses less memory, 
less repeated small malloc/free sequences, faster for larger files.<br />
Added WWW retrieval - can parse from an URI as well as files, given
either <a href="http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/">libcurl</a> or <a href="http://xmlsoft.org/">libxml2</a> is available.<br />
Minor bug fixes.<br />
Various Win32 configure, building patches<br />
Sources updated to use autoconf 1.6+, automake 2.52+<br />
More debian packaging updates.
</p>

<h2>2003-02-13 Version 0.9.8 Released</h2>
<p>Minor bug fixes (synchronising with Redland 0.9.12 release).<br />
Fixed crashing on empty files<br />
Fixed accepting illegal <tt>xmlns:prefix=""</tt> (prefix without URI not allowed)<br />
N-Triples bnodeIDs can now have '0's<br />
Utility program rdfdump renamed to rapper; name conflicted with a common
Linux utility.
</p>

<h2>2002-12-20 Version 0.9.7 Released</h2>
<p>Passes about 90% of <a href="http://www.w3.org/2000/10/rdf-tests/rdfcore/">RDF Core WG Test Cases</a><br />
All memory leaks fixed<br />
Portability fixes - compilers, scripts, auto* tools, libxml2 version<br />
<tt>rdf:ID</tt> syntax and duplicates checked<br />
<tt>rdf:bagID</tt> supported<br />
Added more conformance tests, errors and warnings.
</p>

<h2>2002-11-02 Version 0.9.6 Released</h2>
<p><b>Calling API changed</b> to provide a common interface to
the RDF parsers.  The libraptor.3 manual page describes the changes.<br />
Added support for RDF datatyped literals in 
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-syntax-grammar">RDF/XML</a> with
<tt>rdf:datatype</tt> attribute on property elements and
<a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/08/rdf-test/#ntriples">N-Triples</a>
with the <tt>"string"^^&lt;datatypeURIref&gt;</tt>.<br />
Added support for <tt>rdf:parseType="Collection"</tt> for RDF Collections<br />
URI class allows swappable implementation by applications.<br />
URI class now handles file: URIs for Win32 and Unix conventions.<br />
Fixes to enable it to work on Apple OSX 10.1, 10.2
(also tested working on Linux/x86, Solaris/sparc, FreeBSD/x86)<br />
Many internal changes to support API changes, allow it to work
with Redland when compiled as a separate library<br />
Reorganised source into separate modules - URI, xml parser,
ntriples parser, XML namespaces, XML qnames, locator.<br />
More resilience with XML errors and XML parser errors - none of 
libxml2's XML test suite examples crash raptor.<br />
<a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/08/rdf-test/#ntriples">N-Triples</a>
parser recovers gracefully from errors in content<br />
Packing for debian included<br />
Added manual pages libraptor.3 and rapper.1<br />
Added raptor-config script for compiling with the library.
</p>


<h2>2002-06-08 Version 0.9.5 Released</h2>
<p>Many bugs fixed<br />
Added full relative URI resolving<br />
Work around bugs in libxml and expat (older versions)<br />
Support libxml with the use of entities in the document<br />
Support <tt>xml:lang</tt> passing to application
</p>

<h2>2002-03-27 Version 0.9.4 Released</h2>
<p>XML Base support (xml:base) added<br />
xml:lang support added with <a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/08/rdf-test/#langString">N-Triples lang-string</a> support<br />
All <a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/08/rdf-test/#ntrip_strings">N-Triples string escapes</a> implemented<br />
<a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/08/rdf-test/#ntriples">N-Triples</a> support with <a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/08/rdf-test/#xmlString">XML literals</a> - xml("&lt;foo/&gt;") and plain "foo"<br />
removed all special code for containers; treated as regular typedNodes<br />
<tt>rdf:parseType="Literal"</tt> now working<br />
Builds as shared and static libraries<br />
Conformance test suite added
</p>

<h2>2001-08-21 Version 0.9.3 Released</h2>
<p><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-testcases/#ntriples">N-Triples</a>
parser added<br />
<tt>rdf:parseType="Literal"</tt> works much better (Aaron Michal and me)<br />
DAML collections support added (Aaron Michal)<br />
Win32 patch added - I can't confirm my merge didn't break this (Aaron Michal)<br />
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-testcases/#ntriples">N-Triples</a> updated to support CR, LF and CR LF endings<br />
Make parser generated ids appear distinguised from regular URIs<br />
Added <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-testcases/#ntriples">N-Triples</a> output<br />
Made rdf:type, rdf:value as property attributes work<br />
Made empty typed nodes work<br />
GNOME xml / libxml error location (line, column) values corrected.
</p>

<h2>2001-07-03 Version 0.9.2 Released</h2>
<p>Now called Raptor</p>

<h2>2001-06-06 Version 0.9.1 Released</h2>
<p>Many bug fixes<br />
Updates for Redland API changes<br />
Fixed <tt>rdf:parsetype="Literal"</tt> buffer overrun<br />
Added better XML parser auto-detection for various expats and libxml
</p>

<h2>2001-01-22 Version 0.9.0 Released</h2>
<p>First release</p>

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<p>Copyright 2001-2004 <a href="http://purl.org/net/dajobe/">Dave Beckett</a>, <a href="http://www.ilrt.bristol.ac.uk/">Institute for Learning and Research Technology</a>, <a href="http://www.bristol.ac.uk/">University of Bristol</a></p>

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