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

[Lars Oppermann <Lars.Oppermann@Sun.COM>]

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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