diff --git a/htroot/ViewFile.java b/htroot/ViewFile.java
index a23746628..d9e26ea91 100644
--- a/htroot/ViewFile.java
+++ b/htroot/ViewFile.java
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ import net.yacy.cora.document.ASCII;
 import net.yacy.cora.document.MultiProtocolURI;
 import net.yacy.cora.document.UTF8;
 import net.yacy.cora.lod.JenaTripleStore;
+import net.yacy.cora.lod.vocabulary.YaCyMetadata;
 import net.yacy.cora.protocol.RequestHeader;
 import net.yacy.cora.services.federated.yacy.CacheStrategy;
 import net.yacy.document.Condenser;
@@ -54,6 +55,9 @@ import net.yacy.kelondro.data.meta.URIMetadataRow;
 import net.yacy.search.Switchboard;
 import net.yacy.search.index.Segment;
 import net.yacy.search.index.Segments;
+
+import com.hp.hpl.jena.rdf.model.Model;
+
 import de.anomic.crawler.Cache;
 import de.anomic.crawler.retrieval.Response;
 import de.anomic.server.serverObjects;
@@ -344,7 +348,8 @@ public class ViewFile {
         prop.putNum("error_size", size);
         prop.put("error_mimeTypeAvailable", (response.getMimeType() == null) ? "0" : "1");
         prop.put("error_mimeTypeAvailable_mimeType", response.getMimeType());
-        prop.putXML("error_triples", JenaTripleStore.getMetadataByURLHash(url.hash()));
+        Model model = JenaTripleStore.getSubmodelBySubject(YaCyMetadata.hashURI(url.hash()));
+        prop.putXML("error_triples", JenaTripleStore.getRDFByModel(model));
         return prop;
     }
 
diff --git a/htroot/api/yacydoc.java b/htroot/api/yacydoc.java
index 5fbf31794..8bd2ac332 100644
--- a/htroot/api/yacydoc.java
+++ b/htroot/api/yacydoc.java
@@ -30,7 +30,9 @@ import java.net.MalformedURLException;
 import net.yacy.cora.date.ISO8601Formatter;
 import net.yacy.cora.document.ASCII;
 import net.yacy.cora.lod.JenaTripleStore;
+import net.yacy.cora.lod.vocabulary.YaCyMetadata;
 import net.yacy.cora.protocol.RequestHeader;
+import net.yacy.cora.protocol.RequestHeader.FileType;
 import net.yacy.kelondro.data.meta.DigestURI;
 import net.yacy.kelondro.data.meta.URIMetadataRow;
 import net.yacy.kelondro.data.word.Word;
@@ -38,6 +40,9 @@ import net.yacy.kelondro.logging.Log;
 import net.yacy.search.Switchboard;
 import net.yacy.search.index.Segment;
 import net.yacy.search.index.Segments;
+
+import com.hp.hpl.jena.rdf.model.Model;
+
 import de.anomic.server.serverObjects;
 import de.anomic.server.serverSwitch;
 
@@ -129,7 +134,10 @@ public class yacydoc {
         prop.put("yacy_outbound", entry.lother());
 
         // extract the submodel from the triplestore
-        prop.putXML("triples", JenaTripleStore.getMetadataByURLHash(entry.hash()));
+        Model model = JenaTripleStore.getSubmodelBySubject(YaCyMetadata.hashURI(entry.hash()));
+        String rdf = JenaTripleStore.getRDFByModel(model);
+        prop.putXML("triples", rdf);
+        prop.put("rdf", header.fileType() == FileType.XML ? rdf : "");
 
         // return rewrite properties
         return prop;
diff --git a/source/net/yacy/cora/lod/JenaTripleStore.java b/source/net/yacy/cora/lod/JenaTripleStore.java
index 40f604f74..a45df78c6 100644
--- a/source/net/yacy/cora/lod/JenaTripleStore.java
+++ b/source/net/yacy/cora/lod/JenaTripleStore.java
@@ -262,9 +262,7 @@ public class JenaTripleStore {
         return m;
     }
 
-    public static String getMetadataByURLHash(byte[] urlhash) {
-        String subject = YaCyMetadata.hashURI(urlhash);
-        Model model = JenaTripleStore.getSubmodelBySubject(subject);
+    public static String getRDFByModel(Model model) {
         ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
         model.write(baos, "RDF/XML-ABBREV");
         return UTF8.String(baos.toByteArray());
diff --git a/source/net/yacy/cora/protocol/RequestHeader.java b/source/net/yacy/cora/protocol/RequestHeader.java
index 24dd640f8..86b01256a 100644
--- a/source/net/yacy/cora/protocol/RequestHeader.java
+++ b/source/net/yacy/cora/protocol/RequestHeader.java
@@ -116,6 +116,7 @@ public class RequestHeader extends HeaderFramework {
         path = path.toLowerCase();
         if (path.endsWith(".json")) return FileType.JSON;
         if (path.endsWith(".xml")) return FileType.XML;
+        if (path.endsWith(".rdf")) return FileType.XML;
         if (path.endsWith(".rss")) return FileType.XML;
         return FileType.HTML;
     }