Re: Initial draft for the GRDDL Scenario gallery (editor's draft mechanics)

Thanks, it's added:
http://www-sop.inria.fr/acacia/personnel/Fabien.Gandon/tmp/grddl/scenario-gallery.htm

Chimezie Ogbuji a écrit :
>
> Below is an overview for the XForms usecase for the gallery
>
> Use case #3 - A GRDDL Profile for XForms-based Webapps: Tom wants to 
> extract transport semantics from an online form used to edit blog 
> entries.
>
> Tom has developed a weblog engine that utilizes <a 
> href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xforms/">XForms</a> for editing entries 
> remotely using the Atom Publishing Protocol.  Tom has found the use of 
> XForms for authoring fragments of Atom quite useful for a variety of 
> reasons.  In particular, the Atom Publishing Protocol's use of HTTP 
> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_Old_XML">POX</a> 
> (Plain Old XML) as the primary remote messaging mechanism allows Tom 
> to easily author various XForm documents that use XForm <a 
> href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xforms/slice3.html#structure-model-submission">submission</a> 
> elements to dispatch operations on web resources.
>
> As a result, the XForms for dispatching these operations each contain 
> a rather rich set of information about transport-level services in the 
> form of service URLs, media-types and HTTP methods.  These are 
> completely encapsulated in an XForms submission element.  It so 
> happens that there is an RDF vocabulary for expressing transport 
> metadata called <a 
> href="http://www.markbaker.ca/2003/05/RDF-Forms/">RDF Forms</a>.
>
> Tom wishes to write a general GRDDL profile that extracts an RDF Form 
> graph from the XForms submission elements employed in the various web 
> forms for editing, deleting, and updating Atom entries on his weblog. 
> Such a profile can uniformly extract an RDF description of the 
> transport mechanisms forn a software agent to interpret.  The software 
> agent can automatically retrieve an Introspection Document (via the 
> Atom Publishing Protocol), update existing entries using the 
> identified service URLs, and perform other such services without the 
> necessity of a top-heavy web service stack to capture the service 
> endpoints available at Tom's weblog.
>
> Additionally, I attempted a first cut at such a profile:
>
> http://esw.w3.org/topic/GRDDLProfileForXForms
>
> This particular usecase overlaps a bit with (or could be the perfect 
> segue for) the Atom/OWL usecase, so I tried to have the focus be on 
> the Atom Publishing Protocol instead of the Atom syntax itself - which 
> works well for this usecase since it emphasizes the use of XForms 
> submission elements for targeting service endpoints for managing atom 
> entries.
>
> I hope this works.  I could possibly drill down further, but I wasn't 
> sure of the level of detail we were going for with these.
>
> Later
>
>
> -- Chimezie Ogbuji
>
>

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