Merge pull request #470 from joernhees/rdf_xml_rdf_default_namespace

fixes #468 RDF/XML problem with unqualified use of rdf:about

2 files changed, 24 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/rdflib/__init__.py b/rdflib/__init__.py
index 245930b2..2627b5ed 100644
--- a/rdflib/__init__.py
+++ b/rdflib/__init__.py
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-"""\
-A pure Python package providing the core RDF constructs.
+"""A pure Python package providing the core RDF constructs.
 
 The packages is intended to provide the core RDF types and interfaces
 for working with RDF. The package defines a plugin interface for
@@ -12,19 +11,35 @@ The primary interface `rdflib` exposes to work with RDF is
 
 A tiny example:
 
-    >>> import rdflib
+    >>> from rdflib import Graph, URIRef, Literal
 
-    >>> g = rdflib.Graph()
+    >>> g = Graph()
     >>> result = g.parse("http://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/test/meet/blue.rdf")
 
     >>> print("graph has %s statements." % len(g))
-    graph has 9 statements.
+    graph has 4 statements.
     >>>
     >>> for s, p, o in g:
     ...     if (s, p, o) not in g:
     ...         raise Exception("It better be!")
 
-    >>> s = g.serialize(format='n3')
+    >>> s = g.serialize(format='nt')
+    >>>
+    >>> sorted(g) == [
+    ...  (URIRef(u'http://meetings.example.com/cal#m1'),
+    ...   URIRef(u'http://www.example.org/meeting_organization#homePage'),
+    ...   URIRef(u'http://meetings.example.com/m1/hp')),
+    ...  (URIRef(u'http://www.example.org/people#fred'),
+    ...   URIRef(u'http://www.example.org/meeting_organization#attending'),
+    ...   URIRef(u'http://meetings.example.com/cal#m1')),
+    ...  (URIRef(u'http://www.example.org/people#fred'),
+    ...   URIRef(u'http://www.example.org/personal_details#GivenName'),
+    ...   Literal(u'Fred')),
+    ...  (URIRef(u'http://www.example.org/people#fred'),
+    ...   URIRef(u'http://www.example.org/personal_details#hasEmail'),
+    ...   URIRef(u'mailto:fred@example.com'))
+    ... ]
+    True
 
 """
 __docformat__ = "restructuredtext en"
diff --git a/rdflib/plugins/parsers/rdfxml.py b/rdflib/plugins/parsers/rdfxml.py
index 33df73de..43762b81 100644
--- a/rdflib/plugins/parsers/rdfxml.py
+++ b/rdflib/plugins/parsers/rdfxml.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ __all__ = ['create_parser', 'BagID', 'ElementHandler',
 RDFNS = RDF
 
 # http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-syntax-grammar/#eventterm-attribute-URI
-# A mapping from unqualified terms to there qualified version.
+# A mapping from unqualified terms to their qualified version.
 UNQUALIFIED = {"about": RDF.about,
                "ID": RDF.ID,
                "type": RDF.type,
@@ -216,9 +216,9 @@ class RDFXMLHandler(handler.ContentHandler):
         atts = {}
         for (n, v) in attrs.items():  # attrs._attrs.iteritems(): #
             if n[0] is None:
-                att = URIRef(n[1])
+                att = n[1]
             else:
-                att = URIRef("".join(n))
+                att = "".join(n)
             if att.startswith(XMLNS) or att[0:3].lower() == "xml":
                 pass
             elif att in UNQUALIFIED: