Re: RDF to HTML templating

On 18 December 2013 21:38, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote:

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> 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
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>> 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
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>> that we then would then risk serialisng the whole graph into JSON-LD when
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>> part will be needed in the html template... It is the template that
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>> 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:
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> http://hello.rww.io/hellopatch.html
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SPARQL Update version:

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


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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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>> >> 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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>> 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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>> >> http://bblfish.net/
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