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Frequently Asked Questions about using RDFLib
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Questions about parsing
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Questions about manipulating
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Questions about serializing
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Which serialization method is the most efficient?
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Currently, the "nt" output format uses the most efficient
serialization; "rdf/xml" should also be efficient.  You can
serialize to these formats using code similar to the following::

	myGraph.serialize(target_nt, format="nt")
	myGraph.serialize(target_rdfxml, format="xml")

How can I use some of the abbreviated RDF/XML syntax?
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Use the "pretty-xml" `format` argument to the `serialize` method::

	myGraph.serialize(target_pretty, format="pretty-xml")

How can I control the binding of prefixes to XML namespaces when using RDF/XML?
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Each graph comes with a `NamespaceManager`__ instance in the `namespace_manager` field; you can use the `bind` method of this instance to bind a prefix to a namespace URI::


	myGraph.namespace_manager.bind('prefix', URIRef('scheme:my-namespace-uri:'))

__ http://rdflib.net/rdflib-2.4.0/html/public/rdflib.syntax.NamespaceManager.NamespaceManager-class.html

Does RDFLib support serialization to the `TriX`__ format?
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Yes, both parsing and serialising is supported::

	graph.serialize(format="trix") and graph.load(source, format="trix")

__ http://www.w3.org/2004/03/trix/