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.. _json_ld_protocol/0:

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**protocol**

``json_ld_protocol``
====================

JSON-LD 1.1 parser, generator, and processor protocol.

| **Availability:** 
|    ``logtalk_load(json_ld(loader))``

| **Author:** Paulo Moura
| **Version:** 1:0:0
| **Date:** 2026-02-05

| **Compilation flags:**
|    ``static``


| **Dependencies:**
|   (none)


| **Remarks:**
|    (none)

| **Inherited public predicates:**
|    (none)

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Public predicates
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.. index:: parse/2
.. _json_ld_protocol/0::parse/2:

``parse/2``
^^^^^^^^^^^

Parses a JSON-LD document from the given source (``file(Path)``, ``stream(Stream)``, ``codes(List)``, ``chars(List)``, or ``atom(Atom)``) into a term.

| **Compilation flags:**
|    ``static``

| **Template:**
|    ``parse(Source,Term)``
| **Mode and number of proofs:**
|    ``parse(++compound,--term)`` - ``one_or_error``

| **Exceptions:**
|    ``Source`` is a variable:
|        ``instantiation_error``
|    ``Source`` is neither a variable nor a valid source:
|        ``domain_error(json_ld_source,Source)``


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.. index:: generate/2
.. _json_ld_protocol/0::generate/2:

``generate/2``
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Generates the content using the representation specified in the first argument (``file(Path)``, ``stream(Stream)``, ``codes(List)``, ``chars(List)``, or ``atom(Atom)``) for the term in the second argument.

| **Compilation flags:**
|    ``static``

| **Template:**
|    ``generate(Sink,Term)``
| **Mode and number of proofs:**
|    ``generate(+compound,++term)`` - ``one_or_error``

| **Exceptions:**
|    ``Sink`` is a variable:
|        ``instantiation_error``
|    ``Sink`` cannot be generated:
|        ``domain_error(json_ld_sink,Sink)``


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.. index:: expand/2
.. _json_ld_protocol/0::expand/2:

``expand/2``
^^^^^^^^^^^^

Expands a parsed JSON-LD document. Expansion removes the context and represents all properties and types as full IRIs. The result is a list of node objects in expanded document form.

| **Compilation flags:**
|    ``static``

| **Template:**
|    ``expand(Document,Expanded)``
| **Mode and number of proofs:**
|    ``expand(+term,--list)`` - ``one_or_error``

| **Exceptions:**
|    ``Document`` is a variable:
|        ``instantiation_error``


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.. index:: compact/3
.. _json_ld_protocol/0::compact/3:

``compact/3``
^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Compacts an expanded JSON-LD document using the given context. Compaction applies the context to shorten IRIs to terms or compact IRIs.

| **Compilation flags:**
|    ``static``

| **Template:**
|    ``compact(Document,Context,Compacted)``
| **Mode and number of proofs:**
|    ``compact(+term,+term,--term)`` - ``one_or_error``

| **Exceptions:**
|    ``Document`` is a variable:
|        ``instantiation_error``
|    ``Context`` is a variable:
|        ``instantiation_error``


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.. index:: flatten/2
.. _json_ld_protocol/0::flatten/2:

``flatten/2``
^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Flattens an expanded JSON-LD document. Flattening collects all node objects into a flat ``@graph`` array, with nested nodes replaced by references. Blank node identifiers are generated for nodes without ``@id``.

| **Compilation flags:**
|    ``static``

| **Template:**
|    ``flatten(Document,Flattened)``
| **Mode and number of proofs:**
|    ``flatten(+term,--term)`` - ``one_or_error``

| **Exceptions:**
|    ``Document`` is a variable:
|        ``instantiation_error``


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Protected predicates
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Private predicates
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Operators
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(none)