- From: Markus Lanthaler <markus.lanthaler@gmx.net>
- Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:22:23 +0800
- To: "'Linked JSON'" <public-linked-json@w3.org>
> The API doc describes, in fairly loose terms, how to convert triples > into JSON-LD as part of the Normalization algorithm [1]. It's loose, > because it describes the result of normalization as being N-Triples, > but that leaves a lot of hand-waving about turning those into an > internal representation. My preference would still be that the output of the normalization algorithm is just an ordered set of triples - independent of any serialization format. Of course, concrete serialization formats would then need to transform those triples to a document, in our case, a JSON-LD document. > I could then describe normalization in terms of returning an ordered > array of Triples which can simply make use of the from Triples > algorithm. Depending on how the Normalization doc is described, we > either need to document transforming N-Triples into such an ordered > array of Triples, or have it's results use the same interface > definitions. I would argue for using the same interface. A JSON-LD implementation shouldn't have to deal with N-Triples at all. An implementer shouldn't even need to know that such a thing exists. > The _triples_ IDL definition makes use of JsonLdTripleCallback, which > just describes a _triple_ method taking several parameters. IMO, what > we really need is something like the Triple interface from the somewhat > abandoned RDF Interfaces document [2]. We probably want to import > something based on this definition, changing some terms along the way. Honestly I don't really like the interface as it is quite bloated without doing much. Just transforming the parameters of our _triple_ method and turning that into an interface would be much simple IMO. That being said, I see the advantages of basing it on that interface and would be fine with that. > This also allows us to describe a new API method fromTriples, which > takes an ordered array of Triples and returns an object. > > interface JsonLdProcessor { > ... > object fromTriples(Triple<> input); > } I think would need to return a string to preserve the order. -- Markus Lanthaler @markuslanthaler
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