Review of RDFa DOM API 1.1

I've finished a first-pass review of RDFa DOM API, comments can be found
in-line:

http://docs.google.com/View?docID=df66n3vn_1cv6g6rhm&revision=_latest

In general, I think I agree with Mark's comments about having a more
ECMA-centric mechanism to retrieve and work with objects returned via
the API. I think it boils down to ensuring that ECMA's typeOf() and
toString() methods (among others) are overloaded appropriately and in a
way that doesn't preclude native auto-typing in languages like Perl,
Python, and Ruby.

There are also a number of items that we may want to cut for FPWD -
things like creating triples via the API.

Some features, like RDF Triple Iterators, are neat - I don't necessarily
know what use case we're solving with that feature.

We need many, many more code samples in the document. We don't really
have a good set of use cases for what we want the API to do... so,
unfortunately, we don't know if the API that has been created meets the
needs of the community.

Benjamin has done a good job of getting the document to this stage. We
are going to need involvement from the rest of the RDFa WG to get it to
FPWD readiness, and unfortunately, I don't think that's going to happen
by this Thursday. It looks like the document is going to need a few more
weeks of the entire WG pouring over the API to get it into a
release-able state.

-- manu

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Received on Monday, 12 April 2010 04:45:07 UTC