Semantic Web using Magritte
by smalltalk＠fixinsbar.com
I was wondering if anyone tried to do any kind of XML mapping using
Magritte. I have the requirement to generate RDF from my business
objects, so I was thinking of ways to simplify this. My idea was to
add something in the Magritte descriptions for each object that
pointed to the appropriate URI and schema.
This may be more trouble than its worth. I suppose anyone who has done
anything with generating XML from Magritte could maybe provide some
insight on any hurdles they faced, design ideas, etc.
I also am looking at Magritte for simplifying XML serialization in
general. My problem overall is that I have to generate all these
formats (XML for web service, RSS, ATOM, RDF) and I do not want to
have to write a complex parser to even do this 1/2 way dynamically.
Are there any other libraries out there that do this already? For
instance, I did notice that there is that library (name escapes me)
that lets you port your objects between Smalltalk versions by dumping
to XML files, so that is somewhat close to what I need to do.
I am thinking since I already have a large number of Magritte
descriptions, I might as well expand upon that. This will also let me
do things like change a schema dynamically and provide easy access
memento objects to do things like create a preview of whatever format
I am trying to produce. Thoughts?
