Re: Transform RDF to CSV files

Hello,

I need an advice to transform RDF files to CSV files.

I have experienced transforming XML files to CSV by XSLT. But, have no ideas
how to transform RDF to CSV.

I would highly recommend that you don't use XSLT to transform RDF. RDF
is a data model and can be represented in a plethora of different
ways, some of which are XML-based (TriX and RDF/XML) and some not (N3,
N-Triples, eRDF, RDFa, GRDDLable microformats).

Instead, it is probably easier to take your RDF data in through an RDF
library and then outputting the data that you want as CSV. There are a
list of RDF libraries on the GetSemantic wiki:
http://www.getsemantic.com/wiki/Semantic_Web_Tools

The only time when you should bother using XSLT on RDF data is when
you know it's coming from a specific source. Any time other than that,
RDF is too unpredictable to try and parse using XSLT. I'm sure it may
be possible to do so - and some people may come up with some crazy
RDF/XML parsers written in XSLT, but there are a plethora of good
tools available for most languages and platforms.

One thing you could do is do the following conversion:
RDF library to turn any RDF input in to N-Triples.
Regular expressions to turn N-Triples in to CSV.

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Tom Morris
http://blogs.opml.org/tommorris