- From: James Leigh <james-nospam@leighnet.ca>
- Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 19:05:14 -0400
- To: Bruce D'Arcus <bdarcus@gmail.com>
- CC: al@jku.at, semantic-web@w3.org
Bruce D'Arcus wrote: > What's the consensus on Fresnel? > > It seems obvious to me that RDF needs a decent templating language, > and AFAIK Fresnel is the only option. Is that right, or are there others? > > I've found some grumbling about the fact that Fresnel is defined in > RDF (I can see the argument on both sides, though lean towards the > belief that plain XML would have been better), but not a whole lot more. > Incubating at OpenRDF.org is a project called Alibaba. It is a new effort to create a OWL DL ontology called point-of-view that (like Fresnel) will describe how RDF data should be displayed in HTML and other formats. It differs from Fresnel in that it will serve as a presentation model (written in Java Interfaces) for more structured RDF data. The intention is to complement Fresnel with a more complete and structured OWL DL for use when working with structured RDF-OWL data with strict display requirements. By using a presentation model expressed in JavaBeans it allows for a host of JSP-like templating languages to be used. I am currently experimenting with Groovy templates and how they can be best used in Alibaba. I have also successfully used this presentation model with facelets to render interactive XHTML search interfaces using domain neutral templates. The project is just starting up and is a couple months away from a first release. However, if anyone is interested in contributing their time on this effort please contact me. You can find the source code at this subversion address: https://src.aduna-software.org/svn/org.openrdf/sandbox/james_leigh/alibaba/ Cheers, James
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