Alf Eaton wrote:
> On 03 Aug 2005, at 23:46, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
>
>> Also, once we have the content we want and the URL and the xpath
>> (should we say xpointers?) locations, how do we turm them into RDF
>> statements? how do we guide them to select the available ontologies
>> or empower them to make their own?
>
>
> I have a slightly different question, but on a similar topic.
>
> The scenario is
> i) A document contains data marked up using a standard 'microformat'
> format, eg hReview [1]
> ii) The document also contains a link to a profile describing that
> format, which will recommend an XSLT stylesheet for processing the
> document [2]
> iii) A Greasemonkey (or Piggy Bank) script fetches the XSLT stylesheet,
> applies it to the document, and produces a fragment of RDF/XML [eg 3]
>
> ... then how can that RDF/XML fragment get imported into Piggy Bank? Is
> there a utility function in Piggy Bank that a Greasemonkey script can
> call to say 'import this chunk of RDF/XML'?
>
> I think I remember someone asking a while ago on the list if the data
> coin could show up when a page of pure RDF/XML was loaded - that would
> be applicable here too, as the XML could be loaded into a new page
> using a data: URI.
>
> Admittedly this might all be unnecessary, if the XSLT transformation
> was done by passing the document to a web service rather than using
> Javascript, but I still think it could be useful (for example when
> extracting data from a page that's behind a subscription barrier).
>
> [1] http://microformats.org/wiki/hcalendar
> [2] http://dannyayers.com/archives/2005/08/01/microformats-on-the-grddl/
> [3] http://alf.hubmed.org/hreviewprocessor.user.js
There is *already* support for this inside PB.
See
http://tinyurl.com/bqvxu for an example.
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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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