Re: [Rdfapi-php-interest] Unordered RDF Containers and Gecko

[Richard C. <ri...@cy...>]

Hi Geraint,

On 1 Mar 2006, at 10:49, Geraint Edwards wrote:
>>> I am building a mozilla datasource but am having some  
>>> difficulties  with RDF containers.  As far as I can tell Mozilla  
>>> cannot handle  Seq or Bag entries of type RDF:_n , expecting an  
>>> RDF:li in both cases.
>>
>> That's weird, because rdf:_n is the basic form, and rdf:li is the   
>> syntactic sugar. (Does it work when you change the rdf:_n to  
>> rdf:li  manually?)
>
> Yes - in fact I am moving from long established (working) simple  
> perl code and local files which present container members as  
> <RDF:li>.  I have also followed an example at xulplanet (see http:// 
> www.xulplanet.com/tutorials/mozsdk/rdfsyntax.php) written to  
> demonstrate mozilla/rdf and the rdf:_n syntax gives empty  
> containers whereas the rdf:li syntax works as expected.

Oh, OK. Actually, there's a Mozilla bug filed for this: https:// 
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106516 . Doesn't seem to get  
much attention. I voted for it.

>>> (tracking the order with another attribute possibly?) or does   
>>> someone have experience in getting gecko/mozilla to recognise   
>>> RDF:_n nodes within containers?
>>
> I suspect what I will need to do is to create a new serialization  
> class extending RdfSerializer and override the  
> writeContentStatements function (I know its meant to be private but  
> its better than hacking the core code!) to rewrite the RDF:_n tags  
> as RDF:_li and adding a custom attribute to pass the order number  
> to firefox.  I can then use this custom attribute to create the  
> appropriate RDF:_n based modification statements I send back from  
> the browser to the server.
> It should work but is a bit of a pain :-(.

Why don't you take a stab at adding rdf:li support to the  
RdfSerializer? I'm sure that would benefit other folks as well. Look  
at writeDescriptions() and writeGroup() for a place to start.

Best,
Richard

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