Re: RDF to HTML templating

On 18 December 2013 19:12, Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net> wrote:

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> On 18 Dec 2013, at 17:24, ☮ elf Pavlik ☮ <perpetual-tripper@wwelves.org>
> wrote:
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> > On 12/18/2013 05:04 PM, Henry Story wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >>   I have a quick question:
> >>
> >>  Is there a simple RDF to HTML templating library?
> >>
> >> We have developed an initial PointedGraph library for
> >> rdflib [1],  and would like to have a function such as
> >>
> >>    template.apply(pg,template)
> >>
> >> which would bind the pointed graph to a template.
> >> I imagine this could be best done with an RDFa
> >> template, but I don't know what the issues with
> >> this are. I am quite open to other suggestions too.
> >>
> >> I have seen Vie, but this seems to require a whole
> >> framework. It would be nice to have a library dedicated
> >> to just this functionality, so that one can use it with
> >> different libraries, or develop our own.
> > +1
> >
> > i'll try to read the RDFa part of VIE and meet up with Henri Bergius in
> Berlin one of next days. maybe we could pull out some reusable component...
>
> That would be really great. I'll need to have a look too.
>
> > i also plan to ASAP use some templating which will take JSON-LD data and
> RDFa template for rendering!
>
> I don't even think the library should be tied to JSON-LD. That is tying it
> to a serialisation format.
> Whether the graph came from RDF/XML, Turtle, or JSON-LD should not matter.
>

+1


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> My initial thought was that the role of the pointed graph, is to give you
> an object oriented view on the store.
> The pointer points on the subject in the graph at the chosen name ( named
> Graph ). Once you have a
> pointed graph, you should have a pointed RDFa document, where you could
> tie the pointed graph pointer
> to the RDFa pointer. Then the library should follow  links in the rdfa,
> and find the information
> from the pointed graph to fill it in.
>

Nice Idea.  In a sense this is what the tabulator render(s) function does,
where s is the subject.


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> Henry
>
> >
> >>
> >> All the best,
> >>
> >>      Henry Story
> >>
> >>
> >> [1]
> https://github.com/stample/rww-play/blob/withPointedGraph/public/ldp/lib/pointedGraph.js
> >>    We'd like to then have an rdfstore implementation for this later.
> >>
> >> Social Web Architect
> >> http://bblfish.net/
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