Re: Review of GRDDL Documents and Issues (abstract)

On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 17:12 -0400, Murray Maloney wrote:
>  http://www.w3.org/2004/01/rdxh/spec
[...]
> Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages (GRDDL)
> ================================================
> As I read the abstract:
> 
>         This document presents GRDDL, a mechanism for Gleaning
> Resource Descriptions 
>         from Dialects of Languages; that is, for getting RDF data out
> of XML and XHTML  documents using explicitly associated transformation
> algorithms, typically represented 
>         in XSLT.
> 
> I want to rewrite it thus: 
> 
>         This document presents GRDDL, a mechanism for Gleaning
> Resource Descriptions 
>         from Dialects of Languages; that is, for harvesting RDF data
> from the field of 
>         XML documents by identifying transformation algorithms,
> typically represented in XSLT.
>         A corresponding GRDDL Use Case Working Draft provides
> motivating examples.
>         A GRDDL Primer demonstrates the mechanism on XHTML documents
> which
>         include widely-deployed dialects, more recently known as micro
> formats.

Yes, the abstract needed work.

Here's what I just committed in v1.94. It more fully abstracts
the contents of the document...


Abstract
GRDDL is a mechanism for Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of
Languages. This GRDDL specification introduces markup for declaring that
an XML document includes RDF data and for linking to an algorithm,
typically represented in XSLT, for gleaning the RDF data from the
document.

The markup includes a namespace-qualified attribute for use in
general-purpose XML documents and a profile-qualified link relationship
for use in valid XHTML documents. The GRDDL mechanism also allows an XML
namespace document (or XHTML profile document) to declare that every
document associated with that namespace (or profile) includes RDF data
and for linking to an algorithm for gleaning the data.

A corresponding GRDDL Use Case Working Draft @@pubfix link provides
motivating examples. A GRDDL Primer @@pubfix link demonstrates the
mechanism on XHTML documents which include widely-deployed dialects,
more recently known as microformats.




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