Re: RDF 2 Wishlist

Op 2-11-2009 13:08, Laurens Holst schreef:
> - RDF templates
>
> What I think RDF could benefit from a lot is a templating language 
> like XSLT (‘RDF-T’?). A standardised means to transform data from an 
> RDF source to XML and (X)HTML would be very useful I think, a very 
> common use case, and right now there isn’t really anything to do that. 
> This could be something based on XSLT with a RDF replacement for XPath 
> (RPath?), you could even mix RDF with XML data sources. XSLT is a nice 
> functional language, has good mindshare, and a lot of standardising 
> work already done.
>
> Or it could be something new, maybe . I myself made some (very simple) 
> RDF templating thing a couple of years ago, loosely based on the RDF 
> templating in Mozilla’s code base, I attached an example. It contains 
> 4 different templates, which loop over a set of nodes provided to it.

Sorry, slightly incomplete message there… Now with attachment, and 
completed sentence:

“…maybe something new is needed to have a better fit to RDF’s graphs”

~Laurens

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