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In general, librdfa is faster than Semargl, but there is some slowness because of the implementation of Rio. Rio loads the dataset into an InputStream before parsing it. However, librdfa parses the triples as they arrive. As a result of this, librdfa-rdf4j first needs to load the dataset into an InputStream and later send the data the C buffer through the Java-C bridge.

Requirements

librdfa-rdf4j uses librdfa library. So, librdfa needs to be installed beforehand. Please follow the installation steps in the librdfa repository.

In general, you need to clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/rdfa/librdfa

And install the library (make sure to have all the libraries that librdfa uses).

./autogen.sh
./configure
make
make install

Building from source

In order to compile librdfa-rdf4j, change into the source directory and execute install using maven.

mvn clean install

Install

You can install libdrfa-rdf4j adding the following maven dependency (make sure to have installed the the librdfa library):

<dependency>
   <groupId>org.apache.any23</groupId>
   <artifactId>apache-any23-librdfa</artifactId>
   <version>${librdfa.rdf4j.version}</version>
</dependency>

Use

Once you have installed librdfa-rdf4j, you can use the parser with the Rio API. For example:

RDFParser rdfParser = Rio.createParser(RDFFormat.RDFA);
Model model = new LinkedHashModel();
rdfParser.setRDFHandler(new StatementCollector(model));
rdfParser.parse(in, "http://www.example.org./");

librdfa extractor

Any23 uses by default Semargl with the standard RDFa 1.1. However, you can change it setting the property any23.extraction.rdfa.programmatic to off to use Semargl with the standard RDFa 1.0. And in order to use librdfa extractor you just need to set the property any23.extraction.rdfa.librdfa. If the librdfa property is set, it will override the Semargl property without regard the value that is set. By default the librdfa property is off. After, you change the extractor you can use Any23 as usual. 

In order to change the property,  you can set the ANY23_OPTS environmental variable or setting the property in the Configuration class. Check the official documentation for more details.