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+<a name="tutorial-serializer-to-destination"></a>Provide a destination for the serialized syntax</h2></div></div></div>
+<p>The operation of turning RDF triples into a syntax has several
+alternatives from functions that do most of the work writing to a file
+or string to functions that allow passing in a
+<a class="link" href="raptor2-section-iostream.html#raptor-iostream" title="raptor_iostream"><span class="type">raptor_iostream</span></a>
+which can be entirely user-constructed.</p>
+<div class="section">
+<div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title">
+<a name="serialize-to-filename"></a>Serialize to a filename (<a class="link" href="raptor2-section-serializer.html#raptor-serializer-start-to-filename" title="raptor_serializer_start_to_filename ()"><code class="function">raptor_serializer_start_to_filename()</code></a>)</h3></div></div></div>
+<p>Serialize to a new filename
+(using <a class="link" href="raptor2-section-iostream.html#raptor-new-iostream-to-filename" title="raptor_new_iostream_to_filename ()"><code class="function">raptor_new_iostream_to_filename()</code></a> internally)
+and uses asf base URI, the file's URI.
+</p>
+<pre class="programlisting">
+ const char *filename = "raptor.rdf";
+ raptor_serializer_start_to_filename(rdf_serializer, filename);
+</pre>
+<p>
+</p>
+</div>
+<div class="section">
+<div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title">
+<a name="serialize-to-string"></a>Serialize to a string (<a class="link" href="raptor2-section-serializer.html#raptor-serializer-start-to-string" title="raptor_serializer_start_to_string ()"><code class="function">raptor_serializer_start_to_string()</code></a>)</h3></div></div></div>
+<p>Serialize to a string that is allocated by the serializer
+(using <a class="link" href="raptor2-section-iostream.html#raptor-new-iostream-to-string" title="raptor_new_iostream_to_string ()"><code class="function">raptor_new_iostream_to_string()</code></a> internally). The
+resulting string is only constructed after <a class="link" href="raptor2-section-serializer.html#raptor-serializer-serialize-end" title="raptor_serializer_serialize_end ()"><code class="function">raptor_serializer_serialize_end()</code></a> is called and at that
+point it is assigned to the string pointer passed in, with the length
+written to the optional length pointer. This function
+takes an optional base URI but may be required by some serializers.
+</p>
+<pre class="programlisting">
+ raptor_uri* uri = raptor_new_uri(world, "http://example.org/base");
+ void *string; /* destination for string */
+ size_t length; /* length of constructed string */
+ raptor_serializer* rdf_serializer = /* serializer created by some means */ ;
+
+ raptor_serializer_start_to_string(rdf_serializer, uri,
+ &amp;string, &amp;length);
+</pre>
+<p>
+</p>
+</div>
+<div class="section">
+<div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title">
+<a name="serialize-to-filehandle"></a>Serialize to a FILE* file handle (<a class="link" href="raptor2-section-serializer.html#raptor-serializer-start-to-file-handle" title="raptor_serializer_start_to_file_handle ()"><code class="function">raptor_serializer_start_to_file_handle()</code></a>)</h3></div></div></div>
+<p>Serialize to an existing open C FILE* file handle
+(using <a class="link" href="raptor2-section-iostream.html#raptor-new-iostream-to-file-handle" title="raptor_new_iostream_to_file_handle ()"><code class="function">raptor_new_iostream_to_file_handle()</code></a> internally). The handle is not closed after serializing is finished. This function
+takes an optional base URI but may be required by some serializers.
+</p>
+<pre class="programlisting">
+ raptor_uri* uri = raptor_new_uri(world, "http://example.org/base");
+ FILE* fh = fopen("raptor.rdf", "wb");
+ raptor_serializer* rdf_serializer = /* serializer created by some means */ ;
+
+ raptor_serializer_start_to_file_handle(rdf_serializer, uri, fh);
+</pre>
+<p>
+</p>
+</div>
+<div class="section">
+<div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title">
+<a name="serialize-to-iostream"></a>Serialize to an <a class="link" href="raptor2-section-iostream.html#raptor-iostream" title="raptor_iostream"><span class="type">raptor_iostream</span></a> (<a class="link" href="raptor2-section-serializer.html#raptor-serializer-start-to-iostream" title="raptor_serializer_start_to_iostream ()"><code class="function">raptor_serializer_start_to_iostream()</code></a>)</h3></div></div></div>
+<p>This is the most flexible serializing method as it allows
+writing to any
+<a class="link" href="raptor2-section-iostream.html#raptor-iostream" title="raptor_iostream"><span class="type">raptor_iostream</span></a>
+which can be constructed to build any form of user-generated structure
+via callbacks. The iostream remains owned by the caller that can continue
+to write to it after the serializing is finished (after
+<a class="link" href="raptor2-section-serializer.html#raptor-serializer-serialize-end" title="raptor_serializer_serialize_end ()"><code class="function">raptor_serializer_serialize_end()</code></a>) is called).
+</p>
+<pre class="programlisting">
+ raptor_uri* uri = raptor_new_uri(world, "http://example.org/base");
+ raptor_iostream* iostream = /* iostream initialized by some means */ ;
+ raptor_serializer* rdf_serializer = /* serializer created by some means */ ;
+
+ raptor_serializer_start_to_iostream(rdf_serializer, uri, iostream);
+
+ while( /* got RDF triples */ ) {
+ raptor_statement* triple = /* ... triple made from somewhere ... */ ;
+ raptor_serializer_serialize_statement(rdf_serializer, triple);
+ }
+ raptor_serializer_serialize_end(rdf_serializer);
+
+ raptor_free_serializer(rdf_serializer);
+
+ /* ... write other stuff to iostream ... */
+
+ raptor_free_iostream(iostream);
+</pre>
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