NAME

RDF::Trine::Parser::ShorthandRDF - Shorthand RDF Parser

SYNOPSIS

use RDF::Trine::Parser;
my $parser     = RDF::Trine::Parser->new( 'ShorthandRDF' );
$parser->parse_into_model( $base_uri, $data, $model );

DESCRIPTION

ShorthandRDF is an extension of N3 syntax. It defines a couple of extra "at rules".

@namepattern

Like @prefix this specifies that particular tokens should be expanded through the addition of a URI prefix. However rather than defining a QName prefix for these tokens, a regular expression for them is defined.

@namepattern "\d{1,2}[A-Z][a-z]{2}\d{4}" <http://example.net/days/> .

<#someEvent> <#onDay> 6Apr2008 .

Is equivalent to the following Turtle:

<#someEvent> <#onDay> <http://example.net/days/6Apr2008> .

@datatype

Similar to @namepattern, but produces a datatyped literal instead.

@datatype "\d{1,2}[A-Z][a-z]{2}\d{4}" <http://example.net/day> .

<#someEvent> <#onDay> 6Apr2008 .

Is equivalent to the following Turtle:

<#someEvent> <#onDay> "6Apr2008"^^<http://example.net/day> .

Precedence

In the case of multiple @namepattern or @datatype definitions that match the same token, the earlier definition wins.

METHODS

This package exposes the same methods as RDF::Trine::Parser::Notation3.

SEE ALSO

http://esw.w3.org/ShorthandRDF .

AUTHOR

Toby Inkster <tobyink@cpan.org>

Based on RDF::Trine::Parser::Turtle by Gregory Todd Williams.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2006-2010 Gregory Todd Williams.

Copyright (c) 2010 Toby Inkster.

All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.