- From: Andreas Langegger <andreas.langegger@gmx.at>
- Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 23:32:00 +0200
- To: semantic-web@w3.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I wonder if there is something (or has been proposed sth) like a concept to add a transformation to plain RDF resulting in an XHTML document. The idea with GRDDL is somehow inverse - given existing documents, like XHTML for instance, I can extract RDF data either by using existing profiles for diverse microformats or by creating a new one (I hope I got this right, I'm not familar with GRDDL in practice). I think in most cases this may be prefered by website developers, because they know (X)HTML and don't want to dive deep into RDF stuff. However, if I wanted to seperate plain data from representation as HTML like it's done with (X)HTML/CSS, it would also be meaningful to provide data in plain RDF and add a template which is able to query RDF graphs and output XML (e.g. XHTML). There could be a special RDF Schema for HTML and a default transformation style producing standard tags which can be formatted by CSS. The problem is that there is no template engine at the RDF graph level - I cannot use XSLT here. Just some thoughts where I would like to here other people's opinions. I don't want to make things more complicate than there are already ;-) ...nor adding further languages, standards, schemas, headaches.... The best argument against such an approach is probably: data is normally not stored in RDF (yet) and coming directly out of RDBMS or XML where concepts/tools for (X)HTML code generation exist. Thus transformation from RDF to HTML is not a concern and shouldn't be done just because it's rainy today and we don't have to do something else... The opposite, pulling RDF data out of existing encodings like (X)HTML is a concern. What do you think? Regards, Andy -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGisBQKk9SuaNc5+IRApaGAKC7NhJUGKrjEocNQ2FiHeda3mXzpQCfdx6Z SPiyiOEbSCpto6tizb2ZqlM= =D9WN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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