Chris,
sorry for the delay in answering this.
Chris Bizer wrote:
> Don't know if you have seen RDF Templates:
>
> RDF Templates (RDFT) are an XML format for creating representations of RDF
> graphs. In a similar way to XSLT, RDF Templates define template rules with
> patterns which are matched against nodes. Template rules specify output
> actions and further node selections which trigger further template
> operation. However, instead of acting on an XML tree, RDFT acts upon an RDF
> graph. Nodes are specified using a 'nodepath' syntax which defines
> conditional node/arc/node graph traversals. A macro definition facility is
> provided to reduce long nodepaths to easier to read strings.
>
> http://www.semanticplanet.com/2003/08/rdft/
>
> http://www.semanticplanet.com/2003/08/rdft/spec
>
> Not directly our direction, but maybe worth a look anyway.
Indeed very interesting.
I don't see how he solves the cyclic nodepath problem, but it's indeed a
think that I thought needed, especially if we want to achieve a
cocoon-like RDF pipelining capability (XSLT tends to be pretty
poor/hacky at transforming RDF since it works on the syntactic level,
not on the RDF data model directly)
Another thing I don't understand is why the name "templates", they don't
look like templates to me at all, but rather transformation rules.
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Stefano Mazzocchi
Research Scientist Digital Libraries Research Group
Massachusetts Institute of Technology location: E25-131C
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