[JemBlog-Develop] Input Templates

[Ian D. <ia...@in...>]

One thing that annoys me about Moveable Type is that the input form is
limited to the fields that the developer thinks I'll need and has
coded support for in the back-end. With an RDF back-end it should be
possible handle all kinds of data at the front-end.

We should define Input Templates that describe the fill-in fields
required to create an instance of a particular class. The simplest
template would define the fields for an rss:Item, i.e. title,
description and link.

This could be described in RDF, e.g. (made up on the spot - no deep
thought behind this)


<rdf:RDF ...>
  <ui:Template>
    <ui:class rdf:resource="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/item" />
    <ui:title>New RSS Item</ui:title>
    <rdf:Seq>
      <rdf:li>
        <ui:Field>
          <ui:classProperty
            rdf:resource="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/title" />
          <ui:cols>40</ui:cols>
          <ui:rows>1</ui:rows>
          <ui:multiline>false</ui:multiline>
        </ui:Field>
      </rdf:li>
    </rdf:Seq>
  </ui:Template>
</rdf:RDF>

What do you think?



- Ian <ia...@in...>
"One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done."