On Peter's point about parsing and serializing RDF: the discussion on
metadata at the TC is still up in the air, but it's occurred to me that
if we use a constrained RDF/XML, and consistently identify things with
URI's, then it should be easy to map back-and-forth to objects even
with just standard XML tools.
E.g., if I have:
<biblio:Book rdf:about="x">
<dc:title>Some title</dc:title>
</biblio:Book>
... just create a Reference object. If I then see:
<biblio:author rdf:resource="y"/>
... as a property of that book, and then we have:
<foaf:Person rdf:about="y">
<foaf:givenname>Jane</foaf:givenname>
<foaf:surname>Doe</foaf:surname>
</foaf:Person>
... then just create a person object, and link the reference object to
it.
Right?
And serializing back to RDF/XML is trivial; just dump the lists of
references, agents, etc. straight to RDF/XML.
Bruce
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