Re: Processing RDF in XML/XSLT workflows

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
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Kjetil Kjernsmo
kjetil@kjernsmo.net
http://www.kjetil.kjernsmo.net/

Received on Tuesday, 27 April 2010 20:41:41 UTC