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What I'm saying is that if the XML-RDF file used as the data source
contains only the element<br>
<dwc:recordedBy
rdf:resource=<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://people.vanderbilt.edu/~steve.baskauf/foaf.rdf#me">"http://people.vanderbilt.edu/~steve.baskauf/foaf.rdf#me"</a>/><br>
there is no way for AJAX, XSLT, or anything else to know that the
string for my name is "Steve Baskauf" without dereferencing the
foaf.rdf file and interpreting it. Thus the rendered HTML can't
display the text "Steve Baskauf" for a human user as the value of
recordedBy. <br>
However, including the element<br>
<rdfs:label>Steve Baskauf</rdfs:label><br>
somewhere in the RDF+XML file makes it possible for any of the
rendering methods you mentioned to get that information without
dereferencing another URI and without "understanding" RDF.<br>
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This was the issue which I think this got lost somewhere earlier in the
thread.<br>
Steve<br>
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Hilmar Lapp wrote:
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type="cite">Hi Steve:
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<div>On May 21, 2010, at 9:28 AM, Steve Baskauf wrote:</div>
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class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>AJAX is "stupid" in the sense
that it doesn't "understand" RDF. It just uses an XML file as a source
of data. So an HTML file using the RDF+XML file as an AJAX data source
would need to get the label information from within the particular
RDF+XML file containing the representation of the GUID and not get it
by dereferencing a link to another file, like the FOAF file that's the
object of the dwc:recordedBy triple. </span></blockquote>
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I'm not really following your argument here - maybe I'm missing some
detail. RDF can be serialized to XML (and in fact your example is
precisely such a serialization), so if your AJAX code needs XML as
source, there is one. There are also JavaScript libraries that can
invoke XSLTs on an XML source and render the resulting HTML (if that's
what you need), and finally, there are also RDF->JSON converters. So
I'm not sure where you see the bottleneck or hurdle.</div>
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<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>-hilmar<br>
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Steven J. Baskauf, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer
Vanderbilt University Dept. of Biological Sciences
postal mail address:
VU Station B 351634
Nashville, TN 37235-1634, U.S.A.
delivery address:
2125 Stevenson Center
1161 21st Ave., S.
Nashville, TN 37235
office: 2128 Stevenson Center
phone: (615) 343-4582, fax: (615) 343-6707
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://bioimages.vanderbilt.edu">http://bioimages.vanderbilt.edu</a>
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