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> Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 15:05:36 +0200
> From: Thomas Baker <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Representing DCMI semantics as RDF schemas versus Web pages
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> On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 11:35:31AM +0100, Chris Croome wrote:
> > On Wed 29-May-2002 at 10:26:44AM +0200, Thomas Baker wrote:
> > > And now, after working with these flat text files for awhile and
> > > finding them _very_ easy to maintain (once set up) -- you edit them
> > > with a plain text editor, everyone can read them, I can paste them
> > > into email messages, etc -- I am now wondering whether the flat text
> > > files could be the upstream origin of the entire work-flow.
> >
> > If the text files had a little bit more information added using XHTML
> > (class and id attributes or whatever works) would it be possible to use
> > XSLT to transform them into RDF and the other versions that are needed?
>
> This is exactly the sort of suggestion I am looking for.
> I already add some XHTML to the flat text files in the form
> of Web-page anchors such as "<a name=title-003>".
>
> > Something along the lines of the XSLT used to generate RSS RDF from
> > http://www.w3.org/ -- see here:
> >
> > http://www.w3.org/2000/08/w3c-synd/#
>
> Hmm, Opera and IE 5.0 didn't understand the hash at the end, but
> http://www.w3.org/2000/08/w3c-synd/ looks interesting.
>
> > For example you noted that the HTML version is missing lang:
> >
> > -- Only the RDFS specifies lang="en" for the label and definition.
> >
> > Could these be added something like this?
> >
> > <a name=title-003>
> > VMS-ID: title-003
> > Name: title
> > URI: <a HREF="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/title">http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/title</a>
> > Label: <span xml:lang="en">Title</span>
> > Definition: <span xml:lang="en">A name given to the resource.</span>
> >
> > I realise that this would be a fairly evil hack... but if it works and makes
> > maintenance easy...
>
> This would indeed be easy, though in this case -- since I am
> only maintaining the English version -- I should think that
> a Perl script for converting this data could be written to
> add lang="en" to every "Label:" and "Definition:", the only
> fields that need such treatment.
>
> I'm curious about the "<a HREF" in the example above
> -- did you add it? -- because the "urlified" page at
> http://www.gmd.de/People/Thomas.Baker/usage/terms/dc already
> surrounds the title URI with an "<A HREF" (using an uppercase
> A) -- generated by a Perl script.
>
> Anyway, this is exactly the type of suggestion I am looking
> for -- minimal markup that will make it easier to transform
> my text file into whatever it needs to be transformed into,
> whether Web pages or RDF.
XML-Schema???
>
> Thanks,
> Tom
>
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