Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
>> Here's another stray thought. It seems that our rendering is
>> attempting
>> to "unroll" an rdf model, which can be an arbitrary graph, into a
>> tree.
>> It is not necessarily the case that the entire tree needs to be
>> displayed
>> all at once. As is the case with ajax, you could imagine sending
>> a quite
>> extensive tree of information back to the client, but then leaving
>> it up
>> to the client (under the user's control) to make decisions about
>> which
>> parts of the tree to "expand"/display at a given moment. This
>> would seem
>> to hold out the possibility of supporting various types of
>> semantic zoom
>> at the client, without need for going back to the server each time
>> you
>> want more details.
David, don't you think that this is an implementation detail of the
software responsible to interpret a fresnel stylesheet? If not, how can
we model that without entering the 'behavioral' space?
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Stefano Mazzocchi
Research Scientist Digital Libraries Research Group
Massachusetts Institute of Technology location: E25-131C
77 Massachusetts Ave telephone: +1 (617) 253-1096
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 email: stefanom at mit . edu
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