Re: Incorporating Excel microformat stylesheet into GRDDL Primer

That's fine; thanks for the heads-up.

Cheers,


On 13/06/2007, at 6:42 AM, Clark, John wrote:

> Mark,
>
> The GRDDL Working Group[0] is interested in including a section on
> gleaning results from (Excel) spreadsheets in the GRDDL Primer
> document[1], which introduces GRDDL and illustrates some uses of  
> GRDDL.
> I have written a draft for this section[2] that is directly based on
> your specification and code for a semantic microformat for Excel 
> [3].  I
> wanted to aknowledge your influence, to thank you for your work,  
> and to
> seek any feedback that you might want to provide.  Please let me  
> know if
> you have any problems with a section like this becoming part of the
> Primer.
>
> Also, please note that the version of `xcel-mf2rdf.xsl` included with
> that draft[4] includes two modifications.  First, I ported the  
> script to
> work with XSLT 1.0 + EXSLT.  Second, I fixed a bug where the index
> normalization needed to use the `[last()]` predicate to look for the
> "nearest" cell with an explicit index, instead of the `[1]` predicate.
>
> [0] http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/grddl-wg/
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/grddl-primer/
>
> [2]
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-grddl-wg/2007Jun/ 
> att-0066/grd
> dl-excel.html
>
> [3] http://www.mnot.net/blog/2005/08/13/excel_microformats
>
> [4]
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-grddl-wg/2007Jun/ 
> att-0066/xce
> l-mf2rdf.xsl
>
> Take care,
>
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