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Rdflib.js, how to serialize the data into turtle (.ttl) format?


How can I serialize RDF in turtle using rdflib.js? There's not much documentation. I can use:

Serializer.statementsToN3(destination);

to serialize into the N3 format, but not much besides that. I've tried altering the aforementioned command to stuff like statementsToTtl/Turtle/TURTLE/TTL, but nothing seems to work.


Solution

  • Figured it out. Courtesy of this (secret) Github gist.

    $rdf.serialize(undefined, source, undefined,` 'text/turtle', function(err, str){
    // do whatever you want, the data is in the str variable.
    })
    

    This is the code from the aforementioned Github gist.

    /**
    * rdflib.js with node.js -- basic RDF API example.
    * @author ckristo
    */
    
    var fs = require('fs');
    var $rdf = require('rdflib');
    
    FOAF = $rdf.Namespace('http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/');
    XSD  = $rdf.Namespace('http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#');
    
    // - create an empty store
    var kb = new $rdf.IndexedFormula();
    
    // - load RDF file
    fs.readFile('foaf.rdf', function (err, data) {
    if (err) { /* error handling */ }
    
    // NOTE: to get rdflib.js' RDF/XML parser to work with node.js,
    // see https://github.com/linkeddata/rdflib.js/issues/47
    
    // - parse RDF/XML file
    $rdf.parse(data.toString(), kb, 'foaf.rdf', 'application/rdf+xml', function(err, kb) {
        if (err) { /* error handling */ }
    
        var me = kb.sym('http://kindl.io/christoph/foaf.rdf#me');
    
        // - add new properties
        kb.add(me, FOAF('mbox'), kb.sym('mailto:e0828633@student.tuwien.ac.at'));
        kb.add(me, FOAF('nick'), 'ckristo');
    
        // - alter existing statement
        kb.removeMany(me, FOAF('age'));
        kb.add(me, FOAF('age'), kb.literal(25, null, XSD('integer')));
    
        // - find some existing statements and iterate over them
        var statements = kb.statementsMatching(me, FOAF('mbox'));
        statements.forEach(function(statement) {
            console.log(statement.object.uri);
        });
    
        // - delete some statements
        kb.removeMany(me, FOAF('mbox'));
    
        // - print modified RDF document
        $rdf.serialize(undefined, kb, undefined, 'application/rdf+xml', function(err, str) {
            console.log(str);
        });
    });
    });