APIs for parsing [[start|Link to API4KB Main Page]]
   * Multiple forms of syntax checking
      * RDF/XML, Turtle (for RDF/OWL), ?
   * Validation API
      * Parser attempts to determine whether or not the resource is valid per the language selected
      * Parser ensures that input file does not contain invalid characters (the character set is specified in the first line of an XML file)
   * Translation API -- given a resource in a declared input language, provide an artifact in the target language (or as close as possible given distinctions in expressivity; with logging to say why it couldn't do something, what was lost, if anything, etc. in cases where the content language is different rather than strictly the format) 
      * typically batch, stateless
      * can be invoked by CRUD APIs as needed
      * may need state management in cases where the client is not asserting the translation to the KB: if the source is maintained in the KB, then translation could be done on demand -- source could be added incrementally, but translation could be executed on the fly and either instantiated in the KB or serialized out per the export capability of the CRUD APIs
   * Support for error handling
      * Should not “blow up” due to input validation errors
      * Provide hints / description of error, with some indication of where the issue(s) are
   * Need round trip capability
      * Load persistent storage into memory
      * Save to persistent format
         * Should be able to recognize the contents of a SPARQL database and then be able to save its contents to RDF or OWL
   * Support for both static (batch) and dynamic (run-time, operational) parsing



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