- From: Kjetil Kjernsmo <kjetil@kjernsmo.net>
- Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 22:41:11 +0200
- To: semantic-web@w3.org
On Monday 26. April 2010 00:11:30 Johan De Smedt wrote: > Hi, > > When publishing content, XSLT is a key technology. > RDF however is kind of difficult to process with XSLT. > Though there is an RDF/XML serialization, that standard allows for a > variety of ways to express the same things. Yeah, I've been there too. I ended up writing thousands and thousands of XSLT, some of it highly complex that nobody else on the team could understand. It is not just about serializing RDF/XML in a sensible way, it is the very graph nature of RDF that makes this impossible unworkable in the general case, and I met those problems quite early in my work. So, while I agree that we should create a number of "RDF/XML Lite" profiles for a few use cases, I think that people should migrate away from XSLT in the publishing toolchain. I've started working on a simple RDFa-inspired templating language: http://www.kjetil.kjernsmo.net/software/rat/ and produced a very early implementation: http://search.cpan.org/~kjetilk/RDF-RDFa-Template/ Best, Kjetil -- Kjetil Kjernsmo kjetil@kjernsmo.net http://www.kjetil.kjernsmo.net/
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