Monthly ArchiveFebruary 2005



language bindings 27 Feb 2005 10:34 am

Redland Bindings Version 1.0.0.2 Released

  • Added Perl bindings to returning RDF graph and boolean query
    results (aka SPARQL CONSTRUCT and ASK
  • Added Perl bindings to returning a query result as a syntax format
  • PHP binding compile fix and now registers module versions (Dave Viner)
  • Perl and Python bindings error handling changed to return the structured messages fields
  • Python error handling now by default throws exceptions on C function return

See the 1.0.0.2 Release Notes
for the full details of the changes.

librasqal RDF query 27 Feb 2005 09:54 am

Rasqal Version 0.9.7 Released

  • Fix a resource cleanup problem when query results were not fully read
  • Fixed some crashes in expression evaluation with invalid types
  • Added a graph pattern API to provide full access to the query structures
  • Added query methods to return just bound or all variables
  • Some updates for syntax changes of
    SPARQL Query Language for RDF W3C Working Draft of 17 February 2005
  • Portability fixes for win32 (Dave Viner)

See the 0.9.7 Release Notes
for the full details of the changes.

language bindings 06 Feb 2005 10:28 am

Redland Bindings Version 1.0.0.1 Released

  • Synchronise with Redland 1.0.0
  • Python API gains returning RDF graph and boolean results
  • Updated the ruby API to rdf-redland 0.5.3.1, fixed installation and test cases
  • Other minor binding changes

See the 1.0.0.1 Release Notes
for the full details of the changes.

librdf RDF API 06 Feb 2005 09:32 am

Redland Version 1.0.0 Released

  • This is a mature library so it is time for 1.0.0
  • Updated to use Rasqal 0.9.6
    for better query and SPARQL support
  • Updated to use Raptor 1.4.5
    for new RDF/XML abbreviated serializer, improved RSS tag soup parser and RSS 1.0 serializer
  • New experimental SQLite storage

See the 1.0.0 Release Notes
for the full details of the changes.

librasqal RDF query 06 Feb 2005 07:05 am

Rasqal Version 0.9.6 Released

  • Added support and API calls for new query result forms graph and boolean
  • Added SPARQL CONSTRUCT, ASK result forms
  • Added 7 new SPARQL built-in functions
  • Allow UTF-8 and Unicode in prefixes and QNames in queries
  • Several other changes and bug fixes.

See the 0.9.6 Release Notes
for the full details of the changes.

libraptor RDF syntax parsing/serializing 06 Feb 2005 06:41 am

Raptor Version 1.4.5 Released

  • Added an RDF/XML with abbreviations serializer (Steve Shepard)
  • Handle RSS 1.1 in RSS tag soup parser
  • More fixes for broken OSX libxml2

See the Raptor 1.4.5 Release Notes
for the full details of the changes.