Re: RDF to HTML templating

On 18 December 2013 19:28, Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net> wrote:

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> On 18 Dec 2013, at 17:50, Luggen Michael <michael.luggen@bfh.ch> wrote:
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> > Hi Henry,
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> > In which kind of format comes the PointedGraph? If you can transform it
> into a JSON Structure you can take any of the numerous JavaScript Template
> Libraries around. I personally prefer Handlebars, but also Mustache,
> Underscore are valid contenders. The interesting tidbit is how to map a
> Graph to a defined JSON Structure which can be consumed by a Template.
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> Hi Michael! :-)
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> That is what we are doing right now by hand to map the pointed graph to JS.
> We could automate it of course. ( if there is a library to do that already
> that would save us some time, please let us know ).
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> The problem is that we want to put actions on the HTML so that when a
> field is updated
> it should update a particular graph in the store ( and the remote LDP
> resource of course ).
> But  for this the field needs to know what relation it was to what
> subject, so
> that the triple can be updated or removed. If one has create json that
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> each of the properties, the types, etc, that seems a bit heavy.
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> ( But perhaps that can be done with JSON=LD ? ... Hmmm.... The problem
> with JSON-LD would be
> that we then would then risk serialisng the whole graph into JSON-LD when
> perhaps only a small
> part will be needed in the html template... It is the template that really
> queries the
> graph to fill it out.)
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> So the problem is to solve the mapping into HTML in such a way that it is
> easy to map back
> to the store when changes are made..
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One way is HTTP PATCH over JSON.  Code and demo here:

http://hello.rww.io/hellopatch.html


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> > Michael
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> > On 18.12.2013, at 17:04, Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net> wrote:
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> >> Hi all,
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> >> I have a quick question:
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> >> Is there a simple RDF to HTML templating library?
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> >> We have developed an initial PointedGraph library for
> >> rdflib [1],  and would like to have a function such as
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> >>  template.apply(pg,template)
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> >> 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.
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> >> 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.
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> >> All the best,
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> >>      Henry Story
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> >> [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.
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