william gunn wrote:
> What's wrong with piggybank's export function?
>   
If you do "View Source" in your browser, you'll see the RDF/XML code. I 
believe the browser for some reason displays RDF/XML as raw text with 
all the XML tags stripped out.

> Well, unless I'm missing something, it exports data as an unformatted stream
> of characters.  Your team has produced a nice set of utilities with
> Babel/Exhibit.  You can paste the results from the results pane of Solvent
> directly into Babel and get out CSV, for example.  I don't understand why
> piggybank's export function doesn't output a recognizable format.  Like I
> said, perhaps I'm so dumb that I'm using totally the wrong tool for the job,
> but piggybank/solvent seems like a great and simple way to get useable
> information from plain html, and the data IS more useable in piggybank than
> on the page it came from, but I'd like to play with my data a little more,
> and I'm having trouble getting it out pf piggybank in a way that retains the
> contextual information.
>
> Am I misunderstanding the purpose of piggybank or the intent of the output
> of the export function?
>  
> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Stefano Mazzocchi
> Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 06:11 PM
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> Subject: Re: Where does piggybank keep its data?
>
> William Gunn wrote:
>   
>> Thanks Stefano.  I found the location on disk.  Perhaps I need to look 
>> over the sesame docs a bit more, but I'm unclear on how to set it up 
>> as a repository in sesame.
>>
>> Perhaps I'm a little over my head, and if this isn't the place for my 
>> novice questions, let me know.
>>
>> I understand that I need to set up the piggybank data as a new data 
>> repository.  I cloned the Native RDF Repository, and Entered the 
>> following parameters for it:
>>
>> The Sail stack I'm using is:
>> org.openrdf.sesame.sailimpl.sync.SyncRdfRepository
>> org.openrdf.sesame.sailimpl.nativerdf.NativeRdfRepository
>>
>> And the parameters I'm using are
>> dir:[my profile]\piggy-bank\
>> triple-indexes: spo,ops
>>
>>
>> When I start sesame, the new repository shows up in the list, but 
>> opening it shows a HTTP 500 written across the top of the page where 
>> the Read actions and Write actions appear if I select one of the 
>> default repositories.  This probably suggests some fundamental 
>> misunderstanding on my part, and if so, I don't mind being told so.  
>> I'm quite aware that I have no idea what I'm doing.
>>
>> The problem I was trying to solve initially was, I thought, simple.  
>> How do I get the data I've already added to piggybank using my 
>> scraper, in the format it would have been shown in the results pane of 
>> solvent?  Is this clear?  Solvent is passing results.turtle to 
>> piggybank.  I'm looking to do the reverse - exporting some of the data 
>> I have already scraped and added to piggybank into a file of the same
>>     
> format as results.turtle.
>
> can I ask you first what's wrong with piggy-bank's own 'export'
> functionality?
>
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