Re: [office-metadata] OpenOffice can parse RDF ?!?!?

[John Madden <john.madden@mac.com>]

Lars,

The fit of the tree view is amazingly good, at least for the style of  
RDF that I used. Incidentally, that RDF was auto-generated by Protege  
(http://protege.stanford.edu) from an RDF instance that I created in  
the Protege browser. I can't take any credit for the style choices.

I agree that RDF/XForms is a white-hot combination, and it's hardly  
been exploited at all by other developers up to this point.  
OpenOffice/ODF could provide some path-breakiing work here.

John

On Aug 28, 2007, at 4:16 AM, Lars Oppermann wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> The XForms implementation uses a DOM view of the instance  
> implemented on top of libxml2. It does not have any special  
> provisions regarding RDF/XML. It just happens that the tree view  
> which we show in order to let the user access the instance seems to  
> fit quite well for the RDF data model.
>
> Being able to bind an XForms model to a metadata stream sounds like  
> a natural synergy between the two mechanisms and I do hope that we  
> will able to provide such a feature in OpenOffice.org in the future.
>
> Bests,
> Lars
>
> John Madden wrote:
>> Bruce,
>> I'm astonished. They must be using an xml parser either in OO  
>> 2.2.1 or inside its XForms engine in it that knows a little bit  
>> about RDF. If I could figure out which one it is, it would help  
>> with this project.
>> BTW, I'm sorry I didn't chime in last week as you requested on the  
>> thread with Svante.
>> John
>> On Aug 27, 2007, at 4:36 PM, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
>>>
>>> On Aug 27, 2007, at 4:30 PM, John Madden wrote:
>>>
>>>> This totally blows me away. Can you clarify for me how OO 2.2.1  
>>>> is so adept at parsing RDF?
>>>
>>> Don't know, but I'd guess the fact your RDF/XML is pretty regular  
>>> (no properties as attributes) helps. We ought to make sure to  
>>> recommend that to implementors.
>>>
>>> Bruce
>>>
>
>
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