[Introspector-developers] Fwd: Re: RDF in mozilla

[James M. D. <mdu...@ya...>]

--- James Michael DuPont <mdu...@ya...> wrote:
> From James Michael DuPont Mon Jan 20 00:43:25 2003
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> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 00:43:25 -0800 (PST)
> From: James Michael DuPont <mdu...@ya...>
> Subject: Re: RDF in mozilla
> To: Dan Mosedale <dm...@mo...>
> CC: Myk Melez <my...@mo...>, pe...@ne...,
> wat...@ne..., 
>     Dave Beckett <dav...@br...>
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> Dan,
> 
> I have been using the rdf redland/raptor [1] application framework
> for 
> dealing with rdf.  (i cced dajobe on this mail)
> 
> We are building an RDF interface into the gcc ASTS [2]. 
> 
> This provides a internal view of the source code, based on the gcc
> internal representation. 
> This could be a good addition to the lxr technology, and will provide
> something similar to doxygen in the end, but better.
> 
> Currently I am experimenting with packaging
> of the resulting rdf sources, you can find examples of this, applied
> to
> the raptor lib, (the parser module of it) itself here [6]. 
> 
> The problem is that we have huge files, the rdf created from the
> global
> gcc data is like 5mb, you will find a 400k gziped ntriples here [7].
> So we need to deal with large rdf files, and with gziped ones.
> 
> Currently we are using the ntriples[3] format for output.
> Have you any plans for supporting ntriples? The raptor lib is very
> good, easy to use. 
> It seems that raptor could be used as a rdf datasource as described
> in
> [5]
> 
> We are currently planning our GUI based on the GTK+ gui framework,
> based on DIA[4]. But Mozilla is very important for use, we want to be
> able to provide image-mapped png output (maybe svg). 
> 
> It is a shame that we have like 3 different RDF apis, the gnu rdflib,
> redland, and the mozilla one. It would be possible to have the
> redland
> api into the mozilla. 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> mike
> 
> [1] Redland raptor
> http://www.redland.opensource.ac.uk/raptor/
> 
> [2] Introspector home
> http://introspector.sf.net
> 
> [3] NTriples
> http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/RDFCore/ntriples/
> 
> [4] Dia homepage
> http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/
> 
> [5] RDF backend howto
> http://www.mozilla.org/rdf/doc/datasource-howto.html
> 
> [6] Example rdf package extracted from raptor
>
http://introspector.sourceforge.net/debian/incoming/raptor-raptor-parse_0.1.orig.tar.gz
> 
> [7] Example gzipped global rdf extracted from gcc source code
>
http://introspector.sourceforge.net/2003/01/19/cppdefault.i/_global__.tu_.ntriples.gz
> --- Dan Mosedale <dm...@mo...> wrote:
> > James Michael DuPont wrote:
> > 
> > >Dan,
> > >Thank you very much. 
> > >I was excited to hear about the possibilities of mozila in dealing
> > with
> > >rdf. 
> > >
> > Sure thing.
> > 
> > >I would like to start out with planning for getting some guis
> going
> > >based on these rdf files. Is there a generic rdf viewer in
> mozilla?
> > >  
> > >
> > There isn't really, as far as I'm aware.  Maybe somebody else CCed
> on
> > 
> > this note knows of one.  Right now, you need to come up with some
> > sort 
> > of XUL that uses templates to create such a viewer.
> > 
> > Dan
> > 
> > >mike
> > >--- Dan Mosedale <dm...@mo...> wrote:
> > >  
> > >
> > >>The mozilla.org docs about XUL and RDF are here:
> > >>
> > >>http://www.mozilla.org/rdf/doc/
> > >>
> > >>The example of this stuff in action that I showed you yesterday
> is
> > >>here:
> > >>
> > >>jar:http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/duplicates.jar!/duplicates.xul
> > >>
> > >>Myk, whom I've CCed on this note, is the author of that example,
> > and
> > >>may 
> > >>be able to help you out of if you have questions while playing
> > around
> > >>with this stuff. 
> 
> 
> 
> =====
> James Michael DuPont
> http://introspector.sourceforge.net/
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