Hi Manu,
Thanks for your e-mail (and the succinct list of relevant questions).
All - can anyone in the WebApps WG/Community commit to a "quick high-
level review of the RDFa DOM API" draft?
Manu - FYI, we've got a significant number of specs in progress [1]
so I don't think you should block on our review.
-Art Barstow
[1] http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/wiki/PubStatus
On May 1, 2010, at 2:03 AM, ext Manu Sporny wrote:
Hi folks,
This is a call to see if anyone from this WG can do a quick high-level
review of the RDFa DOM API. We are planning a FPWD in a week or two
and
would like to see if what we have so far is a good start, makes
sense to
those unfamiliar with RDF/RDFa, and what improvements we should
make in
the coming months to make the API useful for developers. The latest
(FPWD-ready) document is here:
http://www.w3.org/2010/02/rdfa/drafts/2010/WD-rdfa-dom-api-20100429/
We don't need a thorough technical review - just a quick look
through to
see if this is an API you could see yourself using, or if you would
prefer something else. We're mostly interested in having the following
questions answered (answer as few or as many as you'd like):
* Is the purpose of the RDFa DOM API clear?
* Is it clear how one would extract data about a particular subject?
* Is it clear how one could extract data about a certain property?
* Does the document makes sense to someone that only has a passing
knowledge of RDF and RDFa?
* Should we eschew RDF concepts entirely and just return "dumb"
associative-arrays? No classes, just associative arrays.
* Should we integrate a query language, like SPARQL, or leave that
to an
add-on library that could use the RDFa DOM API as the basis for that
implementation?
* Should the "rdfa" library go in the global scope, or on
document.rdfa,
or something else like document.meta?
* Would you rather see the API implemented on document and element
objects rather than in an "rdfa" object? Something like
element.filterData();
* Is the IRI mapping mechanism a design pattern that developers are
comfortable with using?
* Should we use more markup/example combinations, or are the current
markup-less examples helpful?
-- manu
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