- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 11:06:08 -0500
- To: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@cs.man.ac.uk>
- Cc: Harry Halpin <hhalpin@ibiblio.org>, public-grddl-comments@w3.org, Chimezie Ogbuji <ogbujic@ccf.org>, public-grddl-wg@w3.org
On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 17:26 +0200, Bijan Parsia wrote: [...] > > as prose isn't a "widely-supported format"... > > It's far more widely supported than XSLT. It's just not executable. Prose isn't supported by any of the GRDDL-aware agents that I've seen and I don't expect that to change any time soon. I think it's straightforward to read "widely-supported" as "supported by widely available GRDDL-aware agents". > For executable formats, Javascript does *far* more DOM transforms > client side (albeit not in GRDDL agents) than XSLT. Javascript, XSLT, and XQuery are all reasonable candidates. I'd like to see more work on Javascript support in GRDDL-aware agents; it's somewhat unfortunate that other priorities preempted figuring out the details of a javascript API for GRDDL transformations; there was quite a bit of experience to draw from in Piggy Bank. http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/Piggy_Bank_Scrapers_Howto But again, I'd be surprised if the OWL WG felt that QA for a Javascript implementation was so much easier to manage than QA for an XSLT implementation that it made a difference in whether to deploy and support it. -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/ gpg D3C2 887B 0F92 6005 C541 0875 0F91 96DE 6E52 C29E
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