Re: create HTML based on RDF?

Hi Frans, 

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On 6 May 2011, at 12:02, Frans Knibbe wrote:

> Hello,
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> I am continuing my efforts with publishing Linked Data. I am trying to that step by step. I have now managed to publish data in static RDF files. Also, I have managed to configure my web server to do 303 redirection, returning either a HTML file or the RDF file, depending on the client request. I understand that it is good practice to offer a HTML representation of the data if the client is unable to handle RDF.

Sure, you can use a tool like rapper (from libraptor [1] ) to convert any RDF into generic HTML, but using a tool which generates generic HTML from generic RDF it will probably not look very pretty - as it is a hard task. libraptor will output an HTML table, with 3 columns, representing the Subject Predicate and Object. 

In short you will probably have to write code which queries your RDF, and writes out HTML. I do this on my personal homepage [2] which is generated from an RDF file [3] describing me. Ping me off-list if you want me to share some PHP code (albeit dirty) which I use to do this, it is all pretty simple :)

Mischa

[1] http://librdf.org/raptor/ 
[2] http://mmt.me.uk/
[3] http://mmt.me.uk/foaf.rdf 

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> I notice that it would be really helpful if I could automatically generate HTML files based on the RDF files. That way I can focus on just keeping the RDF file in good shape. After creating or editing an RDF file I could run something that makes a HTML representation.
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> Is anyone aware of software that can be used to automatically export a RDF file to a HTML file that looks nice in an internet browser? Or isn't this a common problem? I have to admit that I might thinking in the wrong way about this.
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> Regards,
> Frans
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