canonical property

bool canonical
final

Whether to produce canonical N-Quads output.

When canonical is true, the encoder will:

  • Use specific character escaping rules as defined by RDF canonical N-Quads
  • Sort output lines lexicographically to ensure deterministic output
  • Apply consistent blank node labeling

Important: This does NOT fulfill the complete RDF Dataset Canonicalization specification (RDF-CANON) because blank nodes are not canonicalized according to that spec, which requires much more complex algorithms. For full RDF canonicalization compliance, use the rdf_canonicalization package instead.

This is useful for creating reproducible output that can be compared byte-for-byte across different runs with the same input.

Implementation

final bool canonical;