xproc rdf steps

[Paul Tyson]

Please consider defining standard XProc steps for RDF processing.  This
would facilitate processes that integrate XML and RDF processing.

Here is a suggested starter set.

<p:rdf-rewrite>
<!-- rewrite RDF input in specified output serialization syntax -->
<!-- allow input from external source -->
<!-- output to port as RDF/XML, or to external sink in some other
      notation -->
<!-- could be static error if implementation doesn't handle specified
      notation -->
</p:rdf-rewrite>

<p:sparql>
<!-- run sparql query against zero or more input RDF graphs -->
<!-- allow in-line definition of sparql query -->
<!-- output stream to be RDF/XML or sparql results XML -->
<!-- specify sparql version -->
</p:sparql>

<p:rdfa>
<!-- emit RDF/XML from RDFa markup in XML input -->
<!-- specify version of RDFa to glean -->
</p:rdfa>

<p:grddl>
<!-- apply GRDDL transformation to input, emit RDF/XML -->
<!-- allow xproc to specify grddl:transformation list to append to
      or replace transformations specified in source -->
<!-- specify version of GRDDL to use -->
</p:grddl>

<p:rdf-parse>
<!-- parse RDF input and emit error stream and status -->
</p:rdf-parse>

The XML Processing Model working group considered [1] and rejected [2]
this work item for XProc v1.0.

Thank you,
--Paul Tyson

[1]
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xml-processing-model-comments/2008Aug/0024.html
[2]
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xml-processing-model-comments/2008Sep/0014.html

[Danny Ayers]

2009/3/5 Paul Tyson <phtyson@...>:
> Please consider defining standard XProc steps for RDF processing.

+1


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[Norman Walsh]

Paul Tyson <phtyson@...> writes:
> Please consider defining standard XProc steps for RDF processing.
> This would facilitate processes that integrate XML and RDF processing.
>
> Here is a suggested starter set.

These all look good to me and I'd be happy to help. XProc is designed
to be exensible, so we're hoping that user communities, who are after
all best able to evaluate their own requirements, will undertake to
define XProc steps.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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