- From: james carlyle <jamescarlyle@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 05:52:22 -0800 (PST)
- To: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
Hi, I picked up the challenge offered by Dan Brickley to try and complete a stylesheet for the reward of a pint of beer and a W3 T-Shirt! [1]. I've been working on an XSLT stylesheet to convert RDF XML to NTriples. I looked at trying to help with some existing implementations but I found myself needing to make total rewrite changes across the stylesheet as my understanding of RDF changed (in some cases I found the syntax document insufficient and had to go through the test cases to really understand what should be happening). The current version has unavoidable issues with unicode character encoding and the treatment of XMLLiteral values but otherwise passes (I believe) the positive tests in the test-case repository. More information is available at http://www.semanticplanet.com/library/RdfToTriplesStylesheet I'm a newbie to RDF and not an expert at XSLT so I'm happy to eat humble pie and take any advice on how to improve it. I've also done some work with a test harness that loads generated triples from output text files into a relational database triple store and runs queries to determine which tests failed or succeeded. I think it could be used to compare the output of any RDF processor to the official test results. I'd be interested to hear how other RDF parser developers are testing their output against the test-cases repository, and am happy to make what I have hacked together public if it is of interest. James Carlyle james a takepart.com [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2002Mar/0111.html __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://platinum.yahoo.com
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