Re: Are many (X)HTML documents also RDF/XML documents?

You could generate the desired RDF/XML output with XSLT quite easily.
This is what GRDDL is about:
https://www.w3.org/TR/grddl/#grddl-xhtml

On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 10:02 PM Wouter Beek <wouter@triply.cc> wrote:
>
> Dear SW community,
>
> The RDF/XML 1.1 specification contains the following two phrases:
>
>     When there is only one top-level node element inside rdf:RDF, the
> rdf:RDFcan be omitted although any XML namespaces must still be
> declared.
>
>     The XML specification also permits an XML declaration at the top
> of the document with the XML version and possibly the XML content
> encoding. This is optional but recommended.
>
> Does this mean that many/all (X)HTML documents are also RDF/XML
> documents?  If so, there is much more RDF out there than I had
> previously thought.  In fact, RDF would be at least as popular as HTML
> (contrary to common complaints from the SW community about RDF's
> popularity).
>
> Specifically, does the above mean that the following document should
> be parsed by a standards-compliant RDF/XML parser:
>
> ```xml
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
> <head>
>   <title>
>   </title>
> </head>
> <body>
>   <table>
>     <tr>
>       <td>some col 1</td>
>     </tr>
>   </table>
> </body>
> </html>
> ```
>
> , resulting in the following RDF triples (serialized in N-Triples):
>
> ```
> _:genid1 <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type>
> <http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtmlhtml> .
> _:genid2 <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type>
> <http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtmltitle> .
> _:genid1 <http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtmlhead> _:genid2 .
> _:genid3 <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type>
> <http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtmltable> .
> _:genid4 <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type>
> <http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtmltd> .
> _:genid3 <http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtmltr> _:genid4 .
> _:genid1 <http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtmlbody> _:genid3 .
> ```
>
> ---
> Best regards,
> Wouter Beek.
>
> Email: wouter@triply.cc
> WWW: https://triply.cc
> Tel: +31647674624
>

Received on Monday, 6 May 2019 22:03:41 UTC