Re: [office-metadata] Applying metadata on XForms (earlier Microsoft's Doug Mahugh on custom metadata)

["John F. Madden, MD, PhD" <john.madden@duke.edu>]

Yes, I think instead of using a scripting language, you could agree  
on an intermediate format and then use one or more xslt's to generate  
rdf.

Where did Chimezie write about this? I'd be interested to see.



On May 29, 2007, at 10:52 AM, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:

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> On May 29, 2007, at 9:29 AM, Svante Schubert wrote:
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>> Problems using metadata with RDF:
>> The form control (e.g. field) even when identified by m:about/ 
>> m:propert or xml:id, does not contain the content (only a binding)
>> There is no way to bind RDF metadata directly to the XML instance,  
>> as usually a given schema for the XML instance does not allow  
>> xml:id  or m:about / m:property or any other RDF binding mechanism
>> Even if we would solve the binding problem (e.g. by defining to  
>> add the xml:id on the draw controls representing the data in the  
>> gui) I am not aware of an universal way to generate an RDF output  
>> stream from arbitrary XML instances (e.g. UBL XML to UBL RDF)
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> Chimezie Ogbuji has argued the best way to deal with RDF and XForms  
> is to use a non-RDF XML intermediate format (because you know it is  
> stable WRT to XML) and just map in and out of it.
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> GRDDL might even be appropriate?
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> Bruce
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