[oslc-core] Comments on Vocabulary.xsl (publishing vocabularies to HTML)

[Ian Green1]

In [1] some practices for publishing OSLC vocabularies are described, and 
a sample xsl is given [2] that generates wiki html from RDFS XML source.

The XSL assumes that the seeAlso linkage into the formal specification is 
singular, but in the RM specification this is not the case - for example, 
relationship properties are meaningful on multiple domain resource types 
(RDFS classes) and so the RDFS contains more than one seeAlso for these 
properties.  Dealing with multiple seeAlsos means that the practice of a 
hyperlink from the rdfs:label to the seeAlso resource doesn't.

The seeAlsos on the owl:Ontology element are ignored and yet including 
these seems useful.

The URI of the defined vocabulary elements is never explicitly included - 
only the rdfs:label and namespace URI are included.  If the guidance is 
followed, and the RDFS is correct, concatenating these together with an 
intervening "#" should yield the correct URI.  Putting the URI in the HTML 
seems safer.


I've modified the XSL as follows:
        headings are no longer hyperlinks - they are the rdfs:label only
        there is a See Also section for each vocabulary element and the 
ontology itself which contains all of the see alsos.
        URIs are explicit (the rdf:about of the vocabulary element)
        some minor cosmetics - like separating out classes from properties 
in the summary section

By way of example, here is the CM vocabulary HTML with this new XSL [3] - 
c.f. the current one at [4].

I have two questions: would folk object to me using this XSL for the RM 
vocabulary?  Would we prefer this XSL for all the vocabularies?

regards
        -ian


[1] http://open-services.net/bin/view/Main/OSLCCoreURINamingGuidance
[2] 
http://open-services.net/pub/Main/OSLCCoreURINamingGuidance/Vocabulary.xsl
[3] http://open-services.net/bin/view/Sandbox/CmAltVocab
[4] http://open-services.net/bin/view/Main/CmVocabulary








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