- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 08:11:53 -0500
- To: GRDDL Working Group <public-grddl-wg@w3.org>
We recently got this comment suggesting that GRDDL should provide a way to give out-of-band transformation information... specifying GRDDL transformation for document with no transformation attribute? Bob DuCharme (Wednesday, 25 October) http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-grddl-comments/2006OctDec/0010.html Brian McBride made a similar comment back in January... "I think there are at least two things missing: 2) a way to describe a transformation on a (set of) pages without access to the pages themselves or their schema. " -- Brian McBride, 27 Jan 2006 http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2006Jan/0049 Fabien supported DuCharme's comment in a reply. Chime added a point that is closer to my position... "Well, a transformation nominated / defined by the producer (in this case) would be more authorative than one nominated by consumer (especially if the content is in a specific vocabulary), wouldn't you say? " http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-grddl-comments/2006OctDec/0013.html As a process note, I prefer that WG members don't debate one another in the comments list. We should present a consistent view there. And that means that no one of us should take a position that others in the WG are likely to disagree with. The comments list is mostly a place to try to answer comments by pointing into the documents we have published. On the technical substance, out-of-band transformation is scraping, and please let's keep that separate from GRDDL. GRDDL is about data that the publisher says, authoritatively, is RDF data. i.e. you can follow your nose from the document to the transformation to RDF. There is clearly an issue here, but I am not inclined to add it to the issue list in the GRDDL specification. I'd like someone to give this out-of-band transformation stuff a separate name, since it's clearly not useful to pretend the issue doesn't exist. I don't mind discussing it in this WG to some extent, though if we go very far with it, we'll need to change our charter. -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/ D3C2 887B 0F92 6005 C541 0875 0F91 96DE 6E52 C29E
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