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RDF/XML format to JSON


I am trying to convert the RDF/XML format to JSON format. Is there any python (library) example that i can look into for this to do ?


Solution

  • You can use rdflib to parse many RDF variants (including RDF/XML), or maybe the simpler rdfparser if it suits your needs. You can then use the standard library Python json module (or equivalently third-party simplejson if you're using some Python version older than 2.6) to serialize the in-memory structure built with the parser into JSON. I'm not familiar with any package embodying both steps, unfortunately.

    With the example at rdfparser's site, the overall work would be just...:

    import rdfxml
    import json
    
    class Sink(object): 
       def __init__(self): self.result = []
       def triple(self, s, p, o): self.result.append((s, p, o))
    
    def rdfToPython(s, base=None): 
       sink = Sink()
       return rdfxml.parseRDF(s, base=None, sink=sink).result
    
    s_rdf = someRDFstringhere()
    pyth = rdfToPython(s_rdf)
    s_jsn = json.dumps(pyth)