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NAME

       RDF::NS - Just use popular RDF namespace prefixes from prefix.cc

VERSION

       version 20130930

SYNOPSIS

         use RDF::NS '20130930';              # check at compile time
         my $ns = RDF::NS->new('20130930');   # check at runtime

         $ns->foaf;               # http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/
         $ns->foaf_Person;        # http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Person
         $ns->foaf('Person');     # http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Person
         $ns->uri('foaf:Person'); # http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Person

         use RDF::NS;             # get rid if typing '$' by defining a constant
         use constant NS => RDF::NS->new('20111208');
         NS->foaf_Person;         # http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Person

         $ns->SPAQRL('foaf');     # PREFIX foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/>
         $ns->TTL('foaf');        # @prefix foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> .
         $ns->XMLNS('foaf');      # xmlns:foaf="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/"

         # load your own mapping from a file
         $ns = RDF::NS->new("mapping.txt");

         # select particular mappings
         %map = $ns->SELECT('rdf,dc,foaf');
         $uri = $ns->SELECT('foo|bar|doz'); # returns first existing namespace

         # instances of RDF::NS are just blessed hash references
         $ns->{'foaf'};           # http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/
         bless { foaf => 'http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/' }, 'RDF::NS';
         print (scalar keys %$ns) . "prefixes\n";
         $ns->COUNT;              # also returns the number of prefixes

DESCRIPTION

       Hardcoding URI namespaces and prefixes for RDF applications is neither fun nor
       maintainable.  In the end we all use more or less the same prefix definitions, as
       collected at <http://prefix.cc>. This module includes all these prefixes as defined at
       specific snapshots in time. These snapshots correspond to version numbers of this module.
       By selecting particular versions, you make sure that changes at prefix.cc won't affect
       your programs.

       The command line client rdfns is installed automatically with this module:

         $ rdfns rdf,foaf.ttl
         @prefix foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> .
         @prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> .

       This module does not require RDF::Trine, which is recommended nevertheless.  (at least
       version 0.140).  If you prefer RDF::NS to return instances of RDF::Trine::Node::Resource
       instead of plain strings, use RDF::NS::Trine.  <RDF::NS::URIS> is a similar module that
       returns instances of URI.

       The code repository of this module contains an update script
       <https://github.com/nichtich/RDF-NS/blob/master/update.pl> to download the current prefix-
       namespace mappings from <http://prefix.cc>.

GENERAL METHODS

       In most cases you only need the following lowercase methods.

   new ( $file_or_date [, %options ] )
       Create a new namespace mapping from a selected file or date. The special string "any" can
       be used to get the newest mapping, but you should better select a specific version, as
       mappings can change, violating backwards compatibility.  Supported options include "warn"
       to enable warnings and "at" to specify a date.

   prefix
       Returns the namespace for prefix if namespace prefix is defined. For instance "$ns->foaf"
       returns "http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/".

   prefix_name
       Returns the namespace plus local name, if namespace prefix is defined. For instance
       "$ns->foaf_Person" returns "http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Person".

   uri ( $short | "<$URI>" )
       Expand a prefixed URI, such as "foaf:Person" or "foaf_Person". Alternatively you can
       expand prefixed URIs with method calls, such as "$ns-gtfoaf_Person".  If you pass an URI
       wrapped in "<" and ">", it will not be expanded but returned as given.

SERIALIZATION METHODS

   TTL ( prefix[es] )
       Returns a Turtle/Notation3 @prefix definition or a list of such definitions in list
       context. Prefixes can be passed as single arguments or separated by commas, vertical bars,
       and spaces.

   SPARQL ( prefix[es] )
       Returns a SPARQL PREFIX definition or a list of such definitions in list context. Prefixes
       can be passed as single arguments or separated by commas, vertical bars, and spaces.

   XMLNS ( prefix[es] )
       Returns an XML namespace declaration or a list of such declarations in list context.
       Prefixes can be passed as single arguments or separated by commas, vertical bars, and
       spaces.

   TXT ( prefix[es] )
       Returns a list of tabular-separated prefix-namespace-mappings.

   BEACON ( prefix[es] )
       Returns a list of BEACON format prefix definitions (not including prefixes).

LOOKUP METHODS

   PREFIX ( $uri )
       Get a prefix of a namespace URI, if it is defined. This method does a reverse lookup which
       is less performant than the other direction. If multiple prefixes are defined, it is not
       determinstic which one is returned. If you need to call this method frequently, better
       create a reverse hash (method REVERSE).

   PREFIXES ( $uri )
       Get all known prefixes of a namespace URI.

   REVERSE
       Create a lookup hash from namespace URIs to prefixes. If multiple prefixes exist, the
       shortes is be used. If multiple prefixes with same length exist, the first in alphabetical
       order is used.

   SELECT ( prefix[es] )
       In list context, returns a sorted list of prefix-namespace pairs, which can be used to
       assign to a hash. In scalar context, returns the namespace of the first prefix that was
       found. Prefixes can be passed as single arguments or separated by commas, vertical bars,
       and spaces.

INTERNAL METHODS

   MAP ( $code [, prefix[es] ] )
       Internally used to map particular or all prefixes. Prefixes can be selected as single
       arguments or separated by commas, vertical bars, and spaces. In scalar context, $_ is set
       to the first existing prefix (if found) and $code is called. In list context, found
       prefixes are sorted at mapped with $code.

   GET ( $uri )
       This method is used internally to create URIs as return value of the URI method and all
       lowercase shortcut methods, such as "foaf_Person". By default it just returns $uri
       unmodified.

SEE ALSO

       There are several other CPAN modules to deal with IRI namespaces, for instance
       RDF::Trine::Namespace, RDF::Trine::NamespaceMap, URI::NamespaceMap, RDF::Prefixes,
       RDF::Simple::NS, RDF::RDFa::Parser::Profile::PrefixCC, Class::RDF::NS, XML::Namespace,
       XML::CommonNS etc.

AUTHOR

       Jakob Voss

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       This software is copyright (c) 2013 by Jakob Voss.

       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as
       the Perl 5 programming language system itself.