- From: Simon Reinhardt <simon.reinhardt@koeln.de>
- Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:50:47 +0100
- To: Laurens Holst <laurens.nospam@grauw.nl>
- CC: semantic-web@w3.org
Laurens Holst wrote: > - RDF templates > > What I think RDF could benefit from a lot is a templating language like > XSLT (‘RDF-T’?). A standardised means to transform data from an RDF > source to XML and (X)HTML would be very useful I think, a very common > use case, and right now there isn’t really anything to do that. This > could be something based on XSLT with a RDF replacement for XPath > (RPath?), you could even mix RDF with XML data sources. XSLT is a nice > functional language, has good mindshare, and a lot of standardising work > already done. > > Or it could be something new, maybe . I myself made some (very simple) > RDF templating thing a couple of years ago, loosely based on the RDF > templating in Mozilla’s code base, I attached an example. It contains 4 > different templates, which loop over a set of nodes provided to it. There is Tal4RDF [1], there's Ian's RDF Template Language [2] and for my thesis I wrote something to combine Sesame graphs with FreeMarker templates. There are also a couple of path syntaxes around [3] out of which I found [4] most convincing. And I agree that having (at least) a standardised RDF path language would be very nice. I'm not too keen on something XSLT-like for templates though, I'd prefer just having a path syntax and combining that with various existing template systems. Regards, Simon [1] http://liris.cnrs.fr/~pchampin/t4r/doc/ [2] http://www.semanticplanet.com/2003/08/rdft/spec [3] http://esw.w3.org/topic/RdfPath [4] http://infomesh.net/2003/rdfpath
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