Re: HTML Content Algorithms dont' take external JSON-LD data into account

Dear Rinke,

if the JSON-LD document is available at its own IRI, you can pass this IRI
directly to your document loader.
Why would you want to pass the IRI of the HTML document?
I fail to see your use case...

 best

On Tue, 21 Apr 2020 at 16:35, Hoekstra, Rinke (ELS-AMS) <
r.hoekstra@elsevier.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> We stumbled upon something odd when going through the HTML Content
> Algorithms (section 9.5 of the JSON LD 1.1 API document, [1]).
>
> The algorithm extracts the JSON-LD from the textContent of script elements
> with a JSON-LD mime type as value for the "type" attribute.
>
> We have cases where, similar to e.g. JavaScript, our HTML documents refer
> to JSON-LD data that is hosted external to the HTML document itself.
>
> Our current approach is to use an empty script element with "type" set to
> the JSON-LD mime type, and "src" set to the dereferenceable IRI of the
> JSON-LD dataset that we want to process.
>
> Our assumption was that JSON-LD processing of HTML documents would
> automatically consume these external datasets, but the current algorithm
> doesn't allow for this. That is, if we indeed read the specs correctly.
>
> I appreciate that it's a bit late in the game, but it would be good to at
> least have the algorithm state explicitly that loading such external
> JSON-LD data using a "src" attribute is OPTIONAL. We'd rather not
> standardise on this internally when the JSON-LD spec may opt for using e.g.
> link elements at a later stage.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rinke
>
>
> [1] https://www.w3.org/TR/json-ld11-api/#html-content-algorithms
>
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> Dr. Rinke Hoekstra
> Lead Architect - Knowledge
> Elsevier​, Amsterdam
> r.hoekstra@elsevier.com
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