It struck me in thinking about how Morgen creates his UI for chandler that there might be potential for easy creation of a sort of appserver platform based on the repository. We'd just need an easy schema to spit out the XML, and then use XSLT to transform it into usable UI. We might be able to easily generate RDF and use existing XSLT engines/servers that is strong with RDF.

I'm sure there are already decent webservers that transform RDF into XML (for example I'm pretty sure I heard that's how the W3C renders most of their site) so perhaps there is potential for leveraging an existing RDF solution there.

There is also of course the PyWebOff that we saw at PyCon - Perhaps it would be worth evaluating those to figure out which works best with an RDF-based backend.

-- MikeT - 04 Apr 2005

My thought on this a while back was that we would need to only find a way to get RDF to/from the repository -- this would allow leveraging a whole colorful-explitive-deleted of existing tools. Yarn for example.

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Yes, there is indeed interest in something like this -- one example is the Mozilla toolbar that someone started writing: it wants to be able to get and put info into the repository via HTTP.

-- MorgenSagen - 06 Apr 2005

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This seems to be very similiar to how you explained the import/export on IRC (I think it was you, but it could be the cheetos talking) -- all we would need to do is expose that import/export api to the external devs and then 3rd party parcels (aka links aka plugins) would be able to provide the plumbing

-- MikeT - 06 Apr 2005