Examplotron 0.4 (with import and placeholders)

[Eric van der Vlist <vdv@dyomedea.com>]

I have uploaded the release 0.4 of examplotron with the support of
eg:import and eg:placeHolder as defined in my previous mail.

I'd like to get feedback on these features that are less "obvious" than
the preceding ones!

Thanks

Eric

[1] http://examplotron.org/0/4/

Eric van der Vlist wrote:

.../...

> I am now working on the modules and I'd like to get your feedback on a
> first solution that I have partially implemented (not posted yet).
> 
> I would still like to follow the way we are describing a module such as
> the Dublin Core module [4] by giving examples of partial RSS1.0
> documents with dc elements.
> 
> I'd propose to add 2 new features in examplotron.
> 
> The first one would be the element eg:import:
> 
> <eg:import xlink:href="rss10.xml"/>
> 
> The meaning of eg:import is to "import" the definitions from another
> examplotron by merging the possibilities described in the imported
> document with these from the current document.
> 
> This is not sufficient to controle modules, though since we
> obviously do not want to redefine the RSS1.0 core vocabulary in the DC
> module and we need a way to say that the statements in the DC module
> about RSS 1.0 core are "non normative".
> 
> For this, I'd like to propose a "eg:placeHolder" attribute that would
> say that the current element is just here to identify a path and not to
> add a new pattern:
> 
> <channel eg:placeHolder="true">
> 
> With these two features, an examplotron for the DC module would be:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
>          xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
>          xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/"
>          xmlns:eg="http://examplotron.org/0/"
>          xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
>         eg:placeHolder="true">
>   <eg:import xlink:href="rss10.xml"/>
>   <channel eg:placeHolder="true">
>     <dc:publisher eg:occurs="*">The O'Reilly Network</dc:publisher>
>     <dc:creator eg:occurs="*">Rael Dornfest
> (mailto:rael@oreilly.com)</dc:creator>
>     <dc:rights eg:occurs="*">Copyright © 2000 O'Reilly &amp; Associates,
> Inc.</dc:rights>
>     <dc:date eg:occurs="*">2000-01-01T12:00+00:00</dc:date>
>     <dc:subject eg:occurs="*">XML</dc:subject>
>     <dc:title eg:occurs="*">Your title here</dc:title>
>     <dc:description eg:occurs="*">Description</dc:description>
>     <dc:contributor eg:occurs="*">Contributor</dc:contributor>
>     <dc:type eg:occurs="*">Type</dc:type>
>     <dc:format eg:occurs="*">Format</dc:format>
>     <dc:identifier eg:occurs="*">Identifier</dc:identifier>
>     <dc:source eg:occurs="*">Source</dc:source>
>     <dc:language eg:occurs="*">Language</dc:language>
>     <dc:relation eg:occurs="*">Relation</dc:relation>
>     <dc:coverage eg:occurs="*">Coverage</dc:coverage>
>   </channel>
>   <image eg:placeHolder="true">
>     <dc:publisher eg:occurs="*">Publisher</dc:publisher>
>     <dc:creator eg:occurs="*">Author</dc:creator>
>     <dc:rights eg:occurs="*">Rights</dc:rights>
>     <dc:date eg:occurs="*">date</dc:date>
>     <dc:subject eg:occurs="*">subject</dc:subject>
>     <dc:title eg:occurs="*">Your title here</dc:title>
>     <dc:description eg:occurs="*">Description</dc:description>
>     <dc:contributor eg:occurs="*">Contributor</dc:contributor>
>     <dc:type eg:occurs="*">Type</dc:type>
>     <dc:format eg:occurs="*">Format</dc:format>
>     <dc:identifier eg:occurs="*">Identifier</dc:identifier>
>     <dc:source eg:occurs="*">Source</dc:source>
>     <dc:language eg:occurs="*">Language</dc:language>
>     <dc:relation eg:occurs="*">Relation</dc:relation>
>     <dc:coverage eg:occurs="*">Coverage</dc:coverage>
>   </image>
>   <item eg:placeHolder="true">
>     <dc:description eg:occurs="*">
>                  XML is placing increasingly heavy loads on the existing
> technical
>                  infrastructure of the Internet.
>                </dc:description>
>     <dc:publisher eg:occurs="*">The O'Reilly Network</dc:publisher>
>     <dc:creator eg:occurs="*">Simon St.Laurent
> (mailto:simonstl@simonstl.com)</dc:creator>
>     <dc:rights eg:occurs="*">Copyright © 2000 O'Reilly &amp; Associates,
> Inc.</dc:rights>
>     <dc:date eg:occurs="*">2000-01-01T12:00+00:00</dc:date>
>     <dc:subject eg:occurs="*">XML</dc:subject>
>     <dc:title eg:occurs="*">Your title here</dc:title>
>     <dc:contributor eg:occurs="*">Contributor</dc:contributor>
>     <dc:type eg:occurs="*">Type</dc:type>
>     <dc:format eg:occurs="*">Format</dc:format>
>     <dc:identifier eg:occurs="*">Identifier</dc:identifier>
>     <dc:source eg:occurs="*">Source</dc:source>
>     <dc:language eg:occurs="*">Language</dc:language>
>     <dc:relation eg:occurs="*">Relation</dc:relation>
>     <dc:coverage eg:occurs="*">Coverage</dc:coverage>
>   </item>
>   <textinput eg:placeHolder="true">
>     <dc:publisher eg:occurs="*">Publisher</dc:publisher>
>     <dc:creator eg:occurs="*">Author</dc:creator>
>     <dc:rights eg:occurs="*">Rights</dc:rights>
>     <dc:date eg:occurs="*">date</dc:date>
>     <dc:subject eg:occurs="*">subject</dc:subject>
>     <dc:title eg:occurs="*">Your title here</dc:title>
>     <dc:description eg:occurs="*">Description</dc:description>
>     <dc:contributor eg:occurs="*">Contributor</dc:contributor>
>     <dc:type eg:occurs="*">Type</dc:type>
>     <dc:format eg:occurs="*">Format</dc:format>
>     <dc:identifier eg:occurs="*">Identifier</dc:identifier>
>     <dc:source eg:occurs="*">Source</dc:source>
>     <dc:language eg:occurs="*">Language</dc:language>
>     <dc:relation eg:occurs="*">Relation</dc:relation>
>     <dc:coverage eg:occurs="*">Coverage</dc:coverage>
>   </textinput>
> </rdf:RDF>
> 
> Thanks for your feedback!
> 
> Eric
> 
> [1] http://examplotron.org/
> [2] http://examplotron.org/0/3/
> [3] http://purl.org/rss/1.0/
> [4]
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rss-dev/files/Modules/Standard/mod_dc.html
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