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GRDDL (pronounced "''griddle''") is a markup format for Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages. It is a
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, and enables users to obtain RDF triples out of
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documents, including
XHTML Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML) is part of the family of XML markup languages which mirrors or extends versions of the widely used HyperText Markup Language (HTML), the language in which Web pages are formulated. While HTML, pr ...
. The GRDDL specification shows examples using
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, however it was intended to be abstract enough to allow for other implementations as well. It became a Recommendation on September 11, 2007.W3C press release announcing that GRDDL reached Recommendation status
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Mechanism


XHTML and transformations

A document specifies associated transformations, using one of a number of ways. For instance, an XHTML document may contain the following markup: Document consumers are informed that there are GRDDL transformations available in this page, by including the following in the profile attribute of the head element:
http://www.w3.org/2003/g/data-view
The available transformations are revealed through one or more link elements: This code is valid for
XHTML Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML) is part of the family of XML markup languages which mirrors or extends versions of the widely used HyperText Markup Language (HTML), the language in which Web pages are formulated. While HTML, pr ...
1.x only. The profile attribute has been dropped in
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, including its XML serialisation.


Microformats and profile transformations

If an XHTML page contains Microformats, there is usually a specific profile. For instance, a document with hcard information should have: When fetched http://www.w3.org/2006/03/hcard has: and

Use of this profile licenses RDF data extracted by hcard2rdf.xsl from the 2006 vCard/RDF work.

The GRDDL aware agent can then use that profileTransformation to extract all hcard data from pages that reference that link.


XML and transformations

In a similar fashion to XHTML, GRDDL transformations can be attached to XML documents.


XML namespace transformations

Just like a profileTransformation, an XML namespace can have a transformation associated with it. This allows entire XML dialects (for instance, KML or Atom) to provide meaningful RDF. An XML document simply points to a namespace and when fetched, http://example.com/1.0/ points to a namespaceTransformation. This also allows very large amounts of the existing XML data in the wild to become RDF/XML with minimal effort from the namespace author.


Output

Once a document has been transformed, there is an RDF representation of that data. This output is generally put into a database and queried via SPARQL.


Implementations


GRDDL consumers (also known as GRDDL aware agents)

* OpenLink Virtuoso through its Sponger cartridge system
XML_GRDDL
a semi compliant PHP 5 library * Se
other implementations


See also

*
Microformats Microformats (μF) are predefined HTML markup (like HTML classes) created to serve as descriptive and consistent metadata about HTML element, elements, designating them as representing a certain type of data (such as address book, contact info ...
– a simplified approach to semantically annotate data in websites * RDFa – a
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Recommendation for annotating websites with RDF data


References


Notes

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External links


W3C GRDDL Specification

W3C GRDDL Working Group

W3C GRDDL Primer

W3C GRDDL Use-Cases
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