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cwm - Closed World Machine, an RDF/N3 semantic web data processor

Command line RDF/N3 tool

<command> <options> <steps> [--with <more args> ]

Don't store, just pipe out *

steps, in order left to right:

Input & Output ** in RDF/XML instead of n3 from now on
Input & Output in N3 from now on. (Default)
Input & Output ** in RDF and set given RDF flags
Input & Output in N3 and set N3 flags
Input & Output in NTriples (equiv --n3=usbpartane -bySubject -quiet)
Input & Output in "x" (rdf, n3, etc) --rdf same as: --language=rdf
--n3=sp same as: --language=n3 --languageOptions=sp
Store input and regurgitate, data only, fastest *
Store input and regurgitate in subject order *
No output *
(default is to store and pretty print with anonymous nodes) *
Set the base URI. Input or output is done as though this were the document URI.
Control automatic lookup of identifiers (see below) <uri> Load document. URI may be relative to current directory.
Read rules from foo, apply to store, adding conclusions to store
Read patches from foo, applying insertions and deletions to store
Read rules from foo, apply to store, REPLACING store with conclusions
Read a N3QL query from foo, apply it to the store, and replace the store with its conclusions
Read a SPARQL query from foo, apply it to the store, and replace the store with its conclusions
Apply rules in store to store, adding conclusions to store
as -rules but continue until no more rule matches (or forever!)
use otter (in your $PATH) instead of llyn for linking, etc
Replace the store with an explanation of its contents
proof tries to be shorter
Set modus operandi for inference (see below)
Replace the statements in the store with statements describing them.
Undo the effects of --reify
Reify only nested subexpressions (not top level) so that no {} remain.
Undo the effects of --flatten
as -apply=foo but continue until no more rule matches (or forever!)
Remove from store any triple involving anything in class log:Chaff
Remove all except plain RDF triples (formulae, forAll, etc)
Dump :s to stdout ordered by :k whereever { :k log:outputString :s }
Enable processing of crypto builtin functions. Requires python crypto.
print this message
print CVS revision numbers of major modules
Verbose debugging output of questionable use, range 0-99
instead of outputting, start a SPARQL server on port 8000 of the store
After sparql query, print in sparqlResults format instead of rdf

finally:

Pass any further arguments to the N3 store as os:argv values
* mutually exclusive ** doesn't work for complex cases :-/

Convert from rdf/xml to rdf/n3
Combine data and find all deductions
cwm foo.n3 --flat --n3=spart

Needed to enable any remote stuff.
When reading schema, also load rules pointed to by schema (requires r, s)
Errors loading schemas of definitive documents are ignored
Schemas and definitive documents loaded are merged into the meta knowledge (otherwise they are consulted independently)
Read the schema for any predicate in a query.
Generate unique ids using a run-specific

Closure flags are set to cause the working formula to be automatically expanded to the closure under the operation of looking up:

the subject of a statement added
the predicate of a statement added
the object of a statement added
the object of an rdf:type statement added
any owl:imports documents
any doc:rules documents
errors are ignored --- This is independant of --mode=E
Normalize IRIs to URIs
Smush together any nodes which are = (owl:sameAs)

See http://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/doc/cwm for more documentation.

Setting the environment variable CWM_RDFLIB to 1 makes Cwm use rdflib to parse rdf/xml files. Note that this requires rdflib.

Flags for N3 output are as follows:-

a Anonymous nodes should be output using the _: convention (p flag or not). d Don't use default namespace (empty prefix) e escape literals --- use \u notation i Use identifiers from store - don't regen on output l List syntax suppression. Don't use (..) n No numeric syntax - use strings typed with ^^ syntax p Prefix suppression - don't use them, always URIs in <> instead of qnames. q Quiet - don't output comments about version and base URI used. r Relative URI suppression. Always use absolute URIs. s Subject must be explicit for every statement. Don't use ";" shorthand. t "this" and "()" special syntax should be suppressed. u Use \u for unicode escaping in URIs instead of utf-8 %XX v Use "this log:forAll" for @forAll, and "this log:forAll" for "@forSome". / If namespace has no # in it, assume it ends at the last slash if outputting.

Flags for N3 input:

B Turn any blank node into an existentially qualified explicitly named node.

Flags to control RDF/XML output (after --rdf=) areas follows:

b - Don't use nodeIDs for Bnodes c - Don't use elements as class names d - Default namespace supressed. l - Don't use RDF collection syntax for lists r - Relative URI suppression. Always use absolute URIs. z - Allow relative URIs for namespaces

Flags to control RDF/XML INPUT (after --rdf=) follow:
- Strict spec. Unknown parse type treated as Literal instead of error.
- take foreign XML as transparent and parse any RDF in it
(default is to ignore unless rdf:RDF at top level)
- If non-rdf attributes have no namespace prefix, assume in local <#> namespace
- Assume default namespace declared as local document is assume xmlns=""
- Do not require an outer <rdf:RDF>, treating the file as RDF content (opposite of T)
Note: The parser (sax2rdf) does not support reification, bagIds, or parseType=Literal.
It does support the rest of RDF incl. datatypes, xml:lang, and nodeIds.
June 2015 cwm 1.197