RUDOF(SHACL-VALIDATE)

💖 RUDOF (SHACL-VALIDATE) 💖

okay bestie, so rudof shacl-validate is the rudof subcommand you call when you wanna check your RDF data against SHACL shapes 🌸 this page? it's your whole cheat sheet. version 0.3.8+ds fr fr 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

rudof shacl-validate — validate RDF data using SHACL shapes 🦋

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

rudof shacl-validate [OPTIONS] [DATA]...

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Validate RDF data using SHACL shapes. that's the whole vibe. you give it data, you give it shapes, it tells you if everything's giving what it's supposed to give ✨

🌟 Arguments

• [DATA]... — the data you're validating, bestie. zero or more of them 🫶

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -t, --data-format <FORMAT> — what format your RDF data is in 🍓

[default: turtle] [possible values: turtle, ntriples, rdfxml, trig, n3, nquads, jsonld, pg]

• --base-data <IRI> — base IRI, which is how relative IRIs inside your RDF data get resolved 🌈
• --reader-mode <MODE> — how the RDF reader behaves 👀

[default: strict] [possible values: lax, strict]

• -s, --shapes <INPUT> — your shapes graph: a file, a URI, or -. if you don't set it, it just assumes the shapes are coming from the data itself 🎀
• -f, --shapes-format <FORMAT> — what format your shapes file is in 💜

[default: turtle] [possible values: internal, turtle, ntriples, rdfxml, trig, n3, nquads, jsonld]

• --base-shapes <IRI> — base IRI, and this one resolves relative IRIs inside your shapes 🧚
• -m, --mode <MODE> — validation mode. native is usually the one you want with the in-memory store, and sparql is intended for remote SPARQL endpoints and Qlever ✨

[default: native] [possible values: native, sparql]

• -r, --result-format <FORMAT> — the format your results come out in 🎀

[default: details] [possible values: details, turtle, ntriples, rdfxml, trig, n3, nquads, minimal, compact, json, csv]

• --sort_by <SORT_MODE> — sorts the results by... something. your choice 👑

[default: severity] [possible values: severity, node, component, value, path, sourceshape, details]

• -c, --config-file <FILE> — name of the config file 📁
• -o, --output-file <FILE> — name of the output file, default = terminal 💻
• --force-overwrite — forces overwriting the output file if it already exists. yeah, it will absolutely clobber it, that's the whole point 🙈
• --backend <BACKEND> — picks which RDF data backend your input gets loaded into 🔥
  • memory (default): parse into an in-process oxrdf::Graph.
  • qlever: launch a local QLever Docker container and index the input on disk. requires the binary to be built with the qlever feature.
  • endpoint=<URL_OR_NAME>: query an external SPARQL endpoint by URL, or by the name of an endpoint registered in the TOML config. see also the --endpoint / -e shortcut.
• -e, --endpoint <URL_OR_NAME> — shortcut for --backend endpoint=<URL_OR_NAME> 💫

accepts either a full SPARQL endpoint URL, or the name of an endpoint registered in the TOML config. mutually exclusive with --backend — pick one, not both, bestie 😤

• -h, --help — prints the help. and psst, -h gives you a summary, not the whole thing 👑

💀 heads up: --endpoint/-e and --backend are mutually exclusive. don't do both, it's not that kind of party.

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written by the rudof girlies, shipped as rudof shacl-validate 0.3.8+ds — page 1 of the manual, dated August 2026 💖 periodt, now go validate something and slay ✨