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+// Copyright 2011-2022 David Robillard <d@drobilla.net>
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: ISC
+
+#ifndef SERD_NODE_SYNTAX_H
+#define SERD_NODE_SYNTAX_H
+
+#include "serd/attributes.h"
+#include "serd/env.h"
+#include "serd/memory.h"
+#include "serd/node.h"
+#include "serd/syntax.h"
+#include "zix/attributes.h"
+
+SERD_BEGIN_DECLS
+
+/**
+   @defgroup serd_node_syntax Node Syntax
+   @ingroup serd_reading_writing
+   @{
+*/
+
+/**
+   Create a node from a string representation in `syntax`.
+
+   The string should be a node as if written as an object in the given syntax,
+   without any extra quoting or punctuation, which is the format returned by
+   serd_node_to_syntax().  These two functions, when used with #SERD_TURTLE,
+   can be used to round-trip any node to a string and back.
+
+   @param allocator Allocator used for the returned node, and any temporary
+   objects if `env` is null.
+
+   @param str String representation of a node.
+
+   @param syntax Syntax to use.  Should be either SERD_TURTLE or SERD_NTRIPLES
+   (the others are redundant).  Note that namespaced (CURIE) nodes and relative
+   URIs can not be expressed in NTriples.
+
+   @param env Environment of `str`.  This must define any abbreviations needed
+   to parse the string.
+
+   @return A newly allocated node that must be freed with serd_node_free()
+   using the world allocator.
+*/
+SERD_API SerdNode* ZIX_ALLOCATED
+serd_node_from_syntax(SerdAllocator* ZIX_NULLABLE allocator,
+                      const char* ZIX_NONNULL     str,
+                      SerdSyntax                  syntax,
+                      SerdEnv* ZIX_NULLABLE       env);
+
+/**
+   Return a string representation of `node` in `syntax`.
+
+   The returned string represents that node as if written as an object in the
+   given syntax, without any extra quoting or punctuation.
+
+   @param allocator Allocator used for the returned node, and any temporary
+   objects if `env` is null.
+
+   @param node Node to write as a string.
+
+   @param syntax Syntax to use.  Should be either SERD_TURTLE or SERD_NTRIPLES
+   (the others are redundant).  Note that namespaced (CURIE) nodes and relative
+   URIs can not be expressed in NTriples.
+
+   @param env Environment for the output string.  This can be used to
+   abbreviate things nicely by setting namespace prefixes.
+
+   @return A newly allocated string that must be freed with serd_free() using
+   the world allocator.
+*/
+SERD_API char* ZIX_ALLOCATED
+serd_node_to_syntax(SerdAllocator* ZIX_NULLABLE allocator,
+                    const SerdNode* ZIX_NONNULL node,
+                    SerdSyntax                  syntax,
+                    const SerdEnv* ZIX_NULLABLE env);
+
+/**
+   @}
+*/
+
+SERD_END_DECLS
+
+#endif // SERD_NODE_SYNTAX_H