Re: RDFS / OWL to HTML

Lee Feigenbaum wrote:

> Are there any tools out there that will read in an RDF Schema and/ 
> or OWL
> file and produce an HTML summary of the schema/ontology?

Assuming that your ultimate aim is to have HTML and RDF/XML  
representations of the same information without having to manually  
maintain both, then probably the best solution would be to flip your  
question on its head: is there a way to convert an HTML  
representation of an ontology into RDF/XML?

There are various solution, but RDFa[1] is probably your best choice.  
You'd mark your schema up in XHTML like:

   <div about="#xyzzy" typeof="rdfs:Property" id="term_xyzzy">
     <h2>
       <dfn property="rdfs:label">xyzzy</dfn>
       <a href="#term_xyzzy" rel="rdfs:isDefinedBy">#</a>
     </h2>
     <p property="rdfs:comment">The xyzzy of the thing.</p>
     <p>Sub-property of: <a rel="rdfs:subPropertyOf"
       href="#term_foo" resource="#foo">foo</a>.</p>
   </div>

Then you'd pass the XHTML+RDFa document through an RDFa implementation 
[2] to produce an RDF/XML version.

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1. http://www.w3.org/TR/rdfa-syntax/
2. http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/RDFa/implementation-report/

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Toby A Inkster
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Received on Tuesday, 4 November 2008 08:52:54 UTC