Re: RDF to HTML templating

Again, I believe https://github.com/antoniogarrote/backbone does almost
exactly what you are describing in regards to creating rdf  changesets from
user-supplied input.

Wes Turner
On Dec 18, 2013 4:56 PM, "Henry Story" <henry.story@bblfish.net> wrote:

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> On 18 Dec 2013, at 21:40, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
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> 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,
>>> >
>>> > 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.
>>>
>>> Hi Michael! :-)
>>>
>>> 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 ).
>>>
>>> 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
>>> contains
>>> each of the properties, the types, etc, that seems a bit heavy.
>>>
>>> ( 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.)
>>>
>>> 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:
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> http://hello.rww.io/hellosparql.html
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> Melvin and Michael,
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>  I am aware that one can use HTTP PATCH to update the resources. That is
> indeed what
> our LDP server does.
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> https://github.com/stample/rww-play/wiki/Curl-Interactions#updating-a-resource-with-patch
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> The problem is not how to update the remote resource or the local graph.
> The issue
> is more how to map a change occurring in an html field to a correct SPARQL
> Update string.
> For this to work on needs to know what triple needs to be changed in the
> graph. An update to
> a form tells us what changes occurred to an object of a triple. One still
> needs to know by what
> relation that form element was related to what object. Knowing that it is
> then easy to write the
> correct Sparql Update.
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> Eg.  if someone updates a form element showing a name to a new name, it
> would be great
> if one could by looking at the DOM find automatically from the form what
> the relation was -
> foaf:name for example - and what the subject was <#me> for example.
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>  The thought is that if the html contained this information ( RDFa seems
> like a reasonable first
> choice ), then one could add an event listener on the form element that
> could automatically work
> out these relations.
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> Henry
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>>> > Michael
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On 18.12.2013, at 17:04, Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net> 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.
>>> >>
>>> >> 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.
>>> >>
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